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NEW UPDATED PETITION: FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER & JOSH FATTAL DETAINED IN IRAN FOR TOO LONG—PLEASE FREE ALL THREE!
Please sign our petition for their release, which we intend to deliver to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Mission to the United Nations:
We, the undersigned, respectfully ask the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families. Iranian forces detained Shane Bauer, his fiancée Sarah Shourd and their close friend Josh Fattal on July 31, 2009 while they were enjoying a recreational hike in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. There are conflicting news reports about whether Iranian forces entered Iraq to arrest the three young Americans or they strayed across the poorly marked border by mistake. Sarah, 32, was released on September 14, 2010, on humanitarian grounds after spending 410 days in solitary confinement and immediately vowed to work for the freedom of Shane and Josh, both 28. All three were charged shortly before Sarah’s release with illegal entry and espionage at a hearing in Evin Prison in Tehran where they were finally allowed to meet their lawyer for only the first time. Shane, Sarah and Josh are innocent of any crime and, as Amnesty International reports, their extended pre-trial detention is a violation of Iranian and international law. Their detention is arbitrary and inhumane and we call on the Iranian authorities to show Shane and Josh the same compassion they have shown Sarah and release them without further delay. Shane and Josh have been allowed to telephone their families only twice since their arrest in July 2009. The mothers of Shane, Sarah and Josh traveled to Iran in May 2010 to visit them but were allowed to stay for only two days. The families, friends and supporters of Shane and Josh share the deep hope that the Islamic Republic of Iran will show compassion in this unfortunate case and release them as soon as possible. Thank you. Name: E-mail address: Please enter an optional comment: Do not display name on website: Signatures & Comments: Sarah Shourd: The community of people around the world who continue to be in solidarity with Josh, Shane, me and our families through many long months of suffering and separation will forever be a part of who we are. It is you and your commitment to our freedom that makes me believe in the world and have great faith in what we can do together!! Every moment I live now is for Shane and Josh, they will be free and that is the day my life will truly begin again. With my release we are all a little more free but we will not rest until ALL THREE ARE FREE!!! MaryAnne LaRoque: Please send these people home. It would be such a wonderful show of good will between our countries. These children have done nothing wrong. Please. Send them home. Susan Miller Anonymous: These people have been detained for too long with no charges filed against them. Please, Free the Americans today! Thank You! Anonymous Cassie Jenella Loyoe Anonymous: We in Canada support the release of these two men who have committed no crime. Please release them. p. m. thomas Tao Orion: Josh and Shane are in our hearts and minds every moment, and we will do everything we can to help bring them home soon. They are the kind of people that we need to invigorate and enliven our culture. I am so overjoyed that Sarah has been released, and send her and all of the families and friends love and support from this small town in Oregon that knows and loves Josh deeply. Nate Eve: I am currently sitting with my aunt, Sarah Shourd discussing the whole situation. Free Shane and Josh! Anonymous: I really hope they'll be free. Josie Crawford Anonymous Anonymous: Sending positive thoughts to Josh and Shane. May they find more strength within as they wait to be released so they can return to their families and loved ones. Blessings and light to all the families involved. Susan Wood JD Ross Leahy: I love Shane and Josh. They are beautiful, wonderful people. They deserve to be out of jail, sharing the world with the rest of us. Wendy Tyndall: This is outragous that these travellers should have been held prisioner. They should be freed immediately Joanne Lavine: Keeping these people serves no purpose. These are people of peace and vision. They must be set free! Lynsay Pamela Hinze: Enough is enough. It's time to stop the political games and free them! Joseph Hyde Farah N Mawani: I will be eternally grateful for Sarah's freedom that we fought so hard to achieve for 410 days. But I will not rest until Sarah, Shane and Josh and all of us who love them are completely free. May all the love and the long hard fight for freedom for Shane and Josh carry them home. FREE ALL THREE!!! Joan K. Smith Jennifer W. Janet Perry Loredana Monte Tara Trigg Beth McLean: Send them home!!! Gurbeen Bhasin John Takami: please please free Shane and Josh Anonymous: These children have suffered long enough for a simple mistake. Please release them to their families. Jill Tiernan Tina Waterman: Please free Shane and Josh they don't deserve to be inprisoned a minute longer! Alison Zaharee Jill & Rob & Max Anonymous: Please allow these young men to return safely to the United States. Janice Porto Faith Erkes Anonymous Natasha McIntosh: You can show the world just how compassionate your nation can be. Starting now. These boys are not criminals, they are educated activists who care about peace in the world. Set them free. We are asking for your mercy. Ben Baldassare Sean Collier shannon watkins: They deserve freedom! Sarah Fielding Anonymous: Please allow these two men to come home....they are of no threat to you or your country... and this serves no one. Charles Radman Anonymous Michelle Gallagher Kasey Stubbs Lynne Henrion: It's unbelievable that the government of Iran could be so heartless and cruel to steal three hikers from their loved ones for whatever reason. Please stop the madness! anand arupo: Yes, please right this wrong and return these young people to us. Anonymous: Please do the right, humane thing. Anonymous Lauren Beilin Teri Coleman: Please free Shane and Josh and send them back home to the United States. Sharon O'Driscoll: Imprisoning these innocent young men serves no purpose to your government politically, economically nor humanely. It takes courage and wisdom to admit and correct a mistake. Please show the world true courage and wisdom and release these men now. Chris Crowstaff: It is time for governments to stop using innocent people as political pawns. Keeping Shane and Josh in prison for another moment is not the way to bring about global cooperation and justice! Shane and Josh are global citizens. They need to be free to continue their humanitarian work towards building world peace and helping to create a better understanding between cultures and nations. The world needs Sarah, Shane and Josh! FREE ALL THREE! michael delane Shoshiety: Please show the same mercy to Josh & Shane that was shown towards Sarah. Sallie Constant: Please free Shane and Josh! They are innocent of any crime and deeply missed. Allen Elmore Stephen Dolan: Please show some compassion and release these hikers. Holding them needlessly is only creating more tension and animosity. Terri Clay Richard Whitehead richard swift Ashley Vance: Please Free Josh and Shane! Free All Three! Margaret Kipling Jen Lewis John Wilson Brittany Miles Aaron Allermann Lnda Landig: Please release Shane and Josh on humanitarian grounds. They did not intend any harm. They are not spies; just hikers who may have strayed. Please let them return to their families. fae russell: Free the hikers, they haven't done anything wrong, should be freed immediately, were directed to Iran/Iraq border by other tourists or vendors. Alita Renée Holly: Today, October 3^rd, is my birthday. This is my second birthday wishing one thing: IRAN, PLEASE FREE ALL THREE HIKERS! It has been such a blessing to have Sarah out of prison, but we are all only one third free until Josh and Shane join her, their families and friends. PLEASE FREE ALL THREE!!! Keli Nace Jackie Brock Anonymous Nina Glover: Please free Shane and Josh from Evin Prison. They are loved and missed greatly by their family and friends, and I know they would love to be with them again. They have committed no crime and are being held in prison for no justifiable reason. Free All Three! jamie jo france: please send josh and shane home. i realize america most probably has innocent iranians in custody and i am working on advocating for their release also. love and peace Aidan McGlaze: The continued imprisonment of these innocent men serves only to show the world that Iran disdains the fundamental, universal rights that should unite all people, everywhere. They've done nothing wrong -- LET THEM GO! Theresa Anne Wirth: Don't worry Josh and Shane we are working on getting you home. Just have faith and know that you both are in our thoughts and prayers always. FREEDOM WILL COME!!!! Sonja Jo Judah Robinson Christopher Robin Zimmerman Hope Christina Dixon: Kindness is an act of compassion, please have compassion. Lucky Prescott: The government is playing mind games, and we aren't laughing. Free Josh and Shane! Anonymous: Please don't put them in the middle of a political game. Take our congress instead. Anonymous Anonymous Julia Rotunno Sharon Rogers: LET MY SON OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anonymous Tiffany Caldwell Meredith TAOD Squad: We like what you're doing for humanity! Anna Shethar: Please release them soon! Anonymous: God Bless Tina Mansfield Franziska Satzinger Anonymous: It's time to send these men home to their families. G. Z.: Stop playing political games with human lives. Free Josh and Shane! Jessica: After I saw them on Oprah I realized it was important for everyone to share how they think that those two men need to be released as well. We are all very thankful that they do get their letters though. Mary Detrick Gina Baughn: This has gone on too long... where is the proof they have done anything wrong? Two innocent people are being used to make a political statement and its wrong! Bring them home!!! Anonymous: Free Shane and Josh...Enough is enough!!! Anthony Vo Anonymous: Please release them ASAP!!! sandy Anonymous Don Bouldin Brian W victoria osk Margaret John: "Any day now, any day now, I shall be released" Anonymous elli: It doesn't matter whether American, German, Russian or Asian...whether religious or not...we are all people and these two young men did not do anything wrong. Keep the Faith and stay positive!!! Anonymous Deniece James: I live in Trinidad and Tobago and when i heard about what happened i sincerely felt something hurting deep inside me to know that this is going on in the world. i am here praying for the best Clicia Tremblay: Pl let Shane and Josh return home and rejoin Sarah and their friends/families. They've done nothing wrong and they need to come home. Please!! Megan Shaughnessy-Mogill Anonymous: We're praying for you in Pine City, Minnesota! Jacqueline Lisa Kevin Leja Anonymous: Let these people go home. Terry carroll Anonymous Laurence Shute Donna D'Orio Nancy Ng: Please release the innocent hikers! Barely crossing an unmarked border is not a crime. Merry L. Bindner: Please in the name of Allah! Send Josh + Shane Home to Family+Friends and to Us Who Care! Let Us Give Peace a Chance! We are All Children of Allah/God! Special Blessings and Protection to All! Love+Peace Always...candymom+ Lisa Baughman: I pray that the release of our two Americans be in God's will. I sincerely hope that they aren't being used as some kind of example. I also pray that our countries can unite together, as far fetched as it might seem. Anything is possible with the Lord. May God comfort their family and loved ones through this heart-wrenching time. May the Lord also guide those in command to do what is right for humanity. Court M. Carson: To the powers of the Islamic Republic of Iran Thank you for letting Sarah go. That was a huge gesture of good faith on your part. However, I and the world beg you to please free Josh and Shane too. You have held these two boys for over a year now. In the time you have spent with them, you must have come to realize that these men are not criminals seeking to cause any trouble or ill action to your country, and I would be surprised if you had not noticed that these two people are caring, compassionate, and loving souls who want two things in the world. One: to return home to there beloved friends and family, and Two: A chance to make a difference in our world for the good of all so that the world may live in harmony and peace. They can not do that locked up. Please free Josh and Shane. Please.... به قدرت جمهوری اسلامی ایران با تشکر از شما برای اجازه دادن به سارا برو. این یک حرکت بزرگ از حسن نیت از جانب شما بوده است. با این حال ، من و جهان لطفا خواهش شما را به رایگان جاش و شین بیش از حد. شما باید این دو پسر برای بیش از یک سال در حال حاضر برگزار می شود. در زمانی که شما با آنها به سر برد ، شما باید آمده اند تا درک شود که این مردان به دنبال مجرمان به علت هر گونه مشکل و یا عمل بد را به کشور خود را ندارد ، و من تعجب خواهد بود اگر شما تا به حال متوجه نشده که این دو نفر گرم و خواستنیه ، دلسوز ، و دوست داشتنی که می خواهند روح دو چیز در جهان است. اول : برای بازگشت به کشورتان را به دوستان و خانواده وجود دارد معشوق ، و دوم : فرصتی برای ایجاد اختلاف در جهان ما برای خوب از همه جهان به طوری که ممکن است در هماهنگی و صلح زندگی می کنند. آنها نمی توانند که قفل شده. Jen Trahan Anonymous Samantha Feld: Please allow Josh and Shane to continue their selfless, inspiring work of creating more peace in this world for all. Joshua Shepherd Jo Elmore Anonymous Laura Milham: Their detainment is unwarranted as they are not guilty. Please free them! Anonymous Rod Middleton: Hang in there guys, you have countless support behind you. All the best Angela Bonomo john: Iran political and judicial leaders: please consider releasing the innocent civilians who wandered into your country from hiking in an unmarked area. The world is watching for you to do the right thing for peaceful relations rather than double-talk and made up charges. It doesn't take this long to investigate that your border is unmarked and the hikers had no ill intent. Thank you. Don't you just hate it when someone makes something out of nothing?! Becky Gourde Dr Mitu Khurana: I strongly condemn the suffering bieng meted out to two innocent people...They should be freed with immidiate effect Meghan Johnson Lynne Gray: Detained without charge - that is not right - please release them, now! Heather Maury Michael Wise Elisha Jansen: Please let the go home they are innocent loving and caring people Insha Allah Laura Becerra: Free all three! Louise Hill Anonymous Anonymous: Please release Josh and Shane. stephen beckman Anonymous: Iran is breaking all rules and all hearts by continuing to hold Josh and Shane. I love you Josh! FREE ALL THREE!!! Stephanie Shell: Please show compassion for Shane and Josh by releasing them. Jeffrey Skinner: There is no reason to detain these individuals other than to try and demonstrate your power over americans. let them go. S. Newell: Humanity before politics! Tara Bradford Susan Ried Rachael Wyant Emily Bucha: Please, out of a sense of kindness, compassion and humanity, free the remaining two hikers. Nancy G Field: Please release Shane and Josh so they may rejoin their families. They have given you a year of their lives...Give them back their freedom. Anonymous Joshua Kieleszewski: As a fellow backpacker and adventurer, I find it disappointing to see two explorers detained for mistakenly crossing an unfortunately sensitive border while hiking. These men should be released! Brenda Michael Kassidi Felderman Jimmie Gibbs Katherine Henderson Amanda Schmidthiesler: Best wishes to your families. Please help free these persons. They don't deserve to be where they are right now! Rebekah Little: I will continue to pray Shane and Josh return home safely and soon! carolyn Kaila Davis Jesykah Forkash Janet Gicker: Please release the hikers. They need to come home to their loving families. Lindsey Ryals: Please set these men free, God please hear their cries, Amen Lynnae Soper Melissa Abramo Matthew Purnell vera renella: Send them home!!! Dana Arak Anonymous: Please release them as soon as possible. Whitney Arms Brad & Minerva Blose: We can do all things in Christ Jesus who strengthens us : Phillipians 4:13 Laura Lovo Connie Larrimore: Let our boys free! Rhys Harper: Please allow Josh and Shane to return home to their loved ones. They have committed no crimes, and in fact, are advocates for peace and they have a great fondness and respect for the Middle East. They are amazing people and are suffering greatly. Please send them home! Victoria Welle Glenn Remick Cathleen McCoy Jude Graham: Every day I envision the decision for my friend, Josh and his friend, Shane, to be released thru the heartfelt compassion of the people in positions to make this decision. Thankfully Sarah was released. Please let Josh and Shane come home too. Today. Aron Satterfield Carol Levine: Please send them home! Anonymous Dahiana Carolina Marizan Riley Charbeneau: This story is so heartbreaking. I hope that our US leaders will step up and get our people out of there. This is just not okay. My heart goes out to all of the people involved in this situation. Anonymous Jaci Moravec: I hope to hear thier free soon! Celia Marie Brian Stewart: Why not take an initiative here, you have a possibility to right a wrong here and be welcomed for it. Christian Garton faith hershiser Kristina Lim: Please show compassion and release Shane and Josh. Let them come home! Jennifer Brice tom mcgurn: free them now. Laura Carlson Anonymous Kim Kordat Stephanie Borden Anonymous sandy hopkins: it has been way too long !!!!!! Denise Marks Anonymous Krista Ganoe Anonymous maxine scherz Chris Roth: I know Josh personally and I know he can do a lot of good in the world--to bring understanding between different groups, to bridge divides, heal conflicts, connect people--once he is out, as he did before he was imprisoned. His life is dedicated to promoting a more sustainable, just world, one in which cultural and technological imperialism and overdevelopment do NOT dominate. If ever there was a case of "getting the wrong guy," this is it. I've never met Shane or Sarah, but they seem like kindred spirits--and it's certainly way past time to release Shane as well. Jana Bickham Kendal Hurley Anonymous: FREE ALL THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Leslie S. Leff Traci Vosen Ana Vollmar: Signed with the deep hope that the freedom that is Josh and Shane's right will be here soon... Donny Vosen: I so wish the US Government would realize this is a long overdue priority. Robert Davis: Please make the humanitarian gesture. joanne brown Elena Alaykov Ellyce Thompson Kelli Petrone The Messina Family Mary Calhoun Sherry Bendler Kathleen O'Connell Angelena Siciliano Angela E. Jones: I too add my voice to a chorus of thousands... Please free Shane and Josh! Whatever needs to be done must be done now. These innocent kids are truly being held for an honest mistake. I am sure they won't return to the area now that they and their families have been through so much. My prayers and best wishes go out to them and their families. Angela E. Jones Philadelphia, PA Kelley Masterson: Treat others like you want to be treated~ set these innocent people free to love and make this world a better place by doing so + Heyward Jen Rosen ivan t. s. Kregg Strehorn MANDY DAILY: PLEASE BRING THEIR FAMILIES SOME PEACE AND FREE THE HIKERS! Elizabeth Roland: Bring Shane and Josh home! Kimberly Williams Bobbi Siegelbaum Matt Melnicki: PRAYERS FOR SSJ: It really hurts so much. My greatest fear is that this experience may break down their tremendous spirit. I have never known people so in love with the world. Angie: Blessings to Shane and Josh, you will be home soon guys xxxxx Anonymous Amanda Meyer Kirrin Peart Jenni Ochsner Anonymous Debra Slattery: Please, please FREE SHANE AND JOSH! They have done nothing wrong and deserve to be back with their loved ones. Thank you. felicita Rachel Rothman Mary Pat: Please let the hikers go. They were not spies. Their families miss them. Sarah Kubley: Please please please let them go! Their families have been cooperative and respectful. It is time for this to be over. Thank you for reading this. Kelley Barnes Jacque Gulbrandson Gari Buttar Anonymous: Just do the right thing, especially if it is to your own hurt. Johanna Silver Brigid Morales Richard Grubbs michelle pelc Anonymous Russell: I hope my signing this helps free the hikers through the Iranian Government. Sincerely Susanne Frederick: I sincerely hope you show to be a merciful and compassionate country, respecting basic human rights not to be falsely imprisoned. susan Larsson Kerry Chance Christena Stevens: Please act with compassion and free all three. Henry McFarland Edna Marshall Elizabeth Krohn Mark Worley Wendy McGuire Delaney Shepherd: The hikers did no harm to anybody, so they should be let out. Anne Aaboe Anonymous Laura Breckheimer: Iran, Please Free All Three!!! The world needs more people like Shane, Sarah, and Josh to help us learn about and appreciate all people and cultures around the world!! Andrew Griffin Anonymous: Free the hikers! They deserve to be with their families and friends, and the gesture could serve as a sign of peace between our country and yours. Julia Swavola Emily Churchill: I know Shane and Josh. They have dedicated there lives to global justice. They are not enemies of Iran. The world needs them out and active, not trapped in prison. This madness must end. We miss you, Shane and Josh. Sue Monaco Anonymous: What do politics have to do with the continued inhumane treatment of these innocent victims. Nothing I think but Pawns in their game. Please release Josh & Shane immediately. Luanna Gary: Please release Shane and Josh. The world needs their input. Keith Staley: Iran must free the three NOW!! They have done nothing wrong and Iran should be urged to free them by the United Nations!! Molly Lassiter: Please release these innocent travelers. Amanda Cid james aragon Dr Koha Nim Anonymous Anonymous: Please continue to show compassion and free Shane and Josh! phyllis stanley: Please release Josh and Shane as this is suffering not to be for our citizens and no country should be so cruel to any human beings. Randi Gordon Anonymous Courtney Roberts: Please free these two young men and send them home to their families in America. Anonymous: Free them!!! Anonymous: This is a humanitarian case ~ please show compassion and release them as soon as possible! Thank you. Jennifer Donovan: Please free Josh and Shane. They have worked for peace in the middle east and have deep respect for the culture there. It is a terrible irony that they have been detained in a place that they have tried to help for so long. Please show mercy for them and free them as you have freed Sarah. Tarquino Vintimilla: I strongly object to the detainment of Shane Bauer and Josh Fatal. They did not cross the border intentionally and should be released immediately. Anonymous: They maintain their innocence. Please do not delay obtaining what verifications you require and release these two young men to their country and families. Elizabeth Terry: The world needs the contribution of people like Shane and Josh. They are an example of caring and peace loving human beings. This huge injustice only serves to hurt the Iranian government. It is their fundamental human right to be free!!! Barb Harnish: It's time for Shane and Josh to come home. Please let them come home to their families. Anonymous Anonymous: There is no law broken. Please release Shane and Josh! Anonymous cami hodson ERin Anonymous Jody Dodd: I most sincerely hope that you will extend the same courtesy to Josh and Shane that you extended to Sarah. I know their families desperately want them home. I am sure these 2 young men only want the best for the Iranian people. Thank you for your consideration. Barbara DeGrande: Please send these young people back to their families. Please increase good will between our nations. Katelyn Dow James Lapin Jonathon Hricko Rajshree Boyragee Anonymous: Napa, California and Viroqua, Wisconsin do recognize your understanding of this petition as the utmost important realization of humanity at this moment. Carie McDonough Sue Henderson Vincent Chow: A concerned Malaysian citizen. Beth L. Steinman: It has been way too long. Please release them to their families. It has been way too long for these boys. Please release them now to their families. Alex LaPointe Alannah Tomich: I am a Berkeley student and my mother is currently working in the Sudan. And I keep reading articles about Josh, Shane and Sarah--the media attention you have kept up is a testament to amazing love and dedication. Know that people everywhere are praying for Josh and Shane, travellers, detainees and families worldwide. Michael F. Bonham Cristina Hubbard: Josh Fattal was a valued member of our community here in Cottage Grove Oregon. He worked at a local sustainable agriculture and forestry facility, Aprovecho, where he ran their intern program. He supported the efforts of a group I chaired, Forest Web, which has worked on saving the old growth forests of Oregon. His friends here were shocked and grief-stricken when they learned of his arrest and are still holding hope for his release. Josh is a fine young man who only wants to help make the world a better place. Please send him home to his family and friends. Kevin Murphy Anonymous Kimberly Parkman Kathie Perez Bryan Brune Lory Prokopec Trudi Cooper Gerard Jendras Anonymous Ian Conway Chad Bowechop: We pray continued strength to Josh and Shane. Never give up hope. Makah Indian Nation Anonymous Matthew MacLean Roy Pales Debbie Grubbs: My heartfelt prayers to all people in this unfortunate circumstance. In this modern time, why cannot the Iranians tell that these are plain and young citizens traveling for pleasure and not any sort of spys. Brenda Grant: Don't use people as political weapons. That goes for all countries. Amanda Solomon Elizabeth Haran Caplan: As you have shown compassion for Sarah I have faith that you will extend this same grace to Shane and Josh as well in peace may you always find hope. Leslie Angeline Anonymous: Set them free!!' Anonymous Leslie Lara Sara Nieuwoudt Bethany Weidner Dan Leahy Anonymous Sherry: Please don't detain Josh and Shane any longer. They should not be used as pawns in a political showdown. If they were your children, you'd want them released and safely brought home. Thank you. Trisha Adamson Franjo Lagani Celine C Elizabeth Jordan: Please, extend to Josh and Shane the release from false imprisonment granted to Sarah. The injustice of imprisoning three innocent young people can only weaken Iran's standing in the world. Marguerite Thomas Donna Burns: please release these men ,they have done no wrong please send them home Jennifer Pearce Lauren Griffin Colleen McDuffe: PLEASE, PLEASE, free these innocent, peaceful people. They have been detained for way too long. Vanessa Huizinga: Please allow Josh and Shane to go home. They are just as entitled to freedom as Sarah is. Unmarked boarders and political agendas are pulling these 3 families apart. Please insist on humanitarian action from the Iranian government and release Josh and Shane immediately. Thank you. Canada is watching. Kim Garrels: Empathy is the greatest gift you can give another human being. Anonymous Jackie O Amanda Flood Eric Freeman Janet Hall Anonymous: these individuals need to be let free, they have clearly committed no crime. Alyssa Swedberg: Please them them go! They have been held for way too long and nothing is being done on the government end of this. PLEASE, just let them go! They didn't do any harm! Anonymous PATRICIA OCONNELL: I HAVE CANCER AND JUST FOUND OUT DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH MEDS, THAT I AM DYING. PLEASE LET THESE 2 MEN JOSH AND SHANE LIVE BACK IN AMERICIA, THEY DID NOTHING WRONG. I BEG OF YOU TO PUT YOURSELF IN THIER SHOES AND THEN YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND HOW THEY FEEL. AGAIN PLEASE FREE THEM, I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE THEM SET FREE. THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING DUE TO THE FACT THERE WERE NO SIGNS POSTED THAT THEY COULD SEE. THAT IS NOT THEIR FAULT.DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THEY WOULD PUT THEIR LIVES IN ANY DANGER. SO PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING AND PLEASE,PLEASE SET THEM FREE. YOU HAVE MUST LOOKED INTO THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND I KNOW YOU FOUND NOTHING TO MAKE YOU ( THINK ) THAT THEY ARE SOMEKIND OF "BAD" PEOPLE. DUE TO MY CANCER, I DON'T HAVE FREEDOM. BUT YOU HAVE THE POWER TO FREE THESE 2 PEOPLE. I WOULD EVEN TRADE PLACES WITH THEM RIGHT NOW. I AM A PERSON WHO DID NOTHING WRONG , JUST LIKE THEM, BUT I WOULD TRADE MY LAST FEW DAYS, MONTHS WHATEVER IF YOU SET THEM FREE. IMAGIN IF IT WERE YOUR CHILDREN WHO WERE BEING HELD HOSTAGE AND YOUR CHILDREN DID NOTHING WRONG. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL , NOT REALLY KNOWING WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO YOUR CHILD. AGAIN SHOW LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING AND SET THEM FREE TO GO HOME AND BE WITH THE ONES WHO LOVE THEM. THANK YOU Karah Stoops SHELLY BERGSTROM Gevorg Stepanyan Lisa Cacciatore: By Grace and Faith through Jesus the son of the LIving GOD are we saved!!!! I pray all the time for these men,we love you and our hearts are with you!!!! Carol Gornto: I respectfully request the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to show their compassion and release Shane and Josh. Please allow them to come home to their families and those who love them. Anonymous: Please free Josh and Shane from prison. They have committed no crimes, please release them. Anonymous daniel Wright Jodie Jacobs Jennifer Caffrey: They should be home now. Please use wisdom and mercy! Patricia Bishop: Please show compassion. Limdy Heather Fisher Lori C: Please free these innocent young men! Naomi Cooper: Disgusting treatment of innocent people. Free the hikers! Lisa Paul Erin R. Pustulka: I was moved by Sarah when I saw her on Oprah. My thoughts are with Shane & Josh...and their families. And for Sarah—for her search for personal freedom...for I know it cannot truly be completed until everyone is free. Joseph Cerrato Maria Di Grande: To the members of the Iranian Government, we plead with you to please release Shane and Josh. They have not committed any crimes, and were just in the wrong place. Please show compassion for these two innocent men. Thank you. Adriana Wilkinson Michele R Miller: In the name of peace and true compassion, please release these young hikers. Anonymous Beth Russet Illiana Quimbaya Cathi W. Beth Feingold Anonymous Jenna Dietch Samantha Falciatori Mary Helen Specht Regina Ragans Anonymous: With all my best wishes for Shane and Josh and the people of Iran! M.R. Elizabeth Cohen Anonymous Anonymous: Please end this cruel and unjust punishment of two innocent lives, Josh and Shane. jezebel: they did nouthing worng LET THEM GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kelsey Denomme Tanya Paddock: I watched this show about the 3 hikers on Oprah & it broke my heart. It is wonderful that one has been allowed back home to her loving family, but her life will not go on without her friend & fiancé being freed as well. Please remember these are human beings who did nothing wrong & we, the people of the world, ask you to find it within your heart to let them go home. Thank You!!! Sheral Downham: Free the Guys! I see no proof that they did anything Wrong! We need our Boys freed! Anonymous Natasha Molina: Please show compassion on these men and their families. Thank you. Liz Burch Amanda Scott: Please set these innocent men free! Kathryn Donnell Anonymous jean Tia Kelly: Thank you for doing this. Rev. Thomas C. Jackson Linda Conrad: This is a humanitarian, NOT political, issue! Free the Hikers today!! Anonymous: Seek peace and pursue it. Free all three! Anonymous Anonymous: Please free the young men. they have been there too long Nancy Lenczewski Eric Cooper Martha Bentley anthony kraus Leah Conroe-Luzius Lindsay Arsenault: God Bless. I hope they are freed very soon. They've been very strong and brave thus far. Jennifer Daly: Please send these men back to their families. Taylor MacKenzie Jessie Baglivi Anonymous Heather Trementozzi: God Bless Christine Canard Yvonda Drew: I hope and pray they will be released very soon. Prayers for the families also. Debra Gleason Anonymous: I am a Canadian and I agree these men should be freed. I can't imagine the pain they are in. They are in my prayers! Jean E. Rosenfeld Mariana de Gortari Kevin Chaves: I am a Boy Scout from the United States. This year the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its 100^th anniversary bringing young adults and leaders from across the globe together to share a common enjoyment of exploring the great outdoors through hiking. As John Muir once said: "As long as I'll live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks; learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can." Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are people that went out exploring our great world just like many scouts spread out throughout the world, including from the Islamic Republic of Iran, founded by volunteers and established by Sir Mirza Ahmad Aminzadeh in 1925. These hikers did not have any alternative motive other than finding the beauty that lies within your mountains. I respectfully ask you to show compassion toward Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the American hikers the Islamic Republic of Iran has detained since July 31, 2009. They mean no harm to the Islamic Republic of Iran and do not deserve to be detained any longer. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America, I am deeply concerned that exploring the world around us has become a dangerous activity. It will drive people apart instead of bringing them together through the enjoyment of exploring the great outdoors. So I hope you will understand that governments should not hold innocent travelers captive, but instead should embrace and welcome explorers, travelers and hikers to enjoy their great lands throughout this great globe we all share. Joanne: These two young men have been detained in Iran despite having no charges filed against them. It is time for the Islamic Republic to send them home to freedom and their families. Sandra Yu David Benoit: To the leaders of Iran: Do what is just, do what is right, do what is lawful; release these kids to live their lives as you go on to live yours on a daily basis. Anonymous Leah Gennings Anonymous: I respectfully join the others who have signed this petition and ask for the release of Shane and Josh. Please show the same compassion and humanitarian effort that was shown to Sarah and release these men without further delay. Meg Janci Wendy Averill/Marilee France: It is unconscionable that people innocent of any crime would be incarcerated like this. There is absolutely no justification for continuing to imprison them. shelley berkane Randal Cummings: Mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and benevolence are characteristic of the One God. Expand and implement those aspects/dimensions of God before the eyes of the watching world. Please! Jacqueline Teer: Let's all help to free Shane and Josh. Tiffany Namtu: They need to be free soon. So unfair <3 Trista Sutter Olga erika bernheimer Anonymous Anonymous Heather Martin: Please let them come home to their families soon - they are very missed. solidad decosta Amy Harris Greg Sackos: Hope this comes to an end soon. I think more people need to know about it. This seems like such an injustice that any person around the world that believes in human rights can't help but feel strongly that this must be stopped. I will do what I can until I hear Josh and Shane are free. paige reynolds Cathy Kerbert: Shane and Josh are not spies. They are peace loving people who love your country as well as their own country. PLEASE let them come home!! Rosa del Duca: Iran seems to think it deserves the respect of other nations. Yet its leaders have no qualms about keeping innocent people like Shane and Josh in prison indefinitely. If Iran wants to be taken seriously, then it needs to take human rights seriously, and stop the abuse of power. Addie Jones: Compassion and understanding for all. Susanne Wiesman: In struggle, in solidarity. Kelli Bacher Anonymous: Please free these 2 young men. There is no evidence they mean any harm to anyone and do not deserve imprisonment. Jessica France Anonymous Anonymous Spencer Koffman Amanda Tamar Melen nicholas nakadate: Free the innocent, be a real man. Tiffany Fisk: I have been supporting the hikers since day one and I will continue to do so until all three are free. In the name of peace, in the name of compassion release Josh and Shane. Kaim Merali: Forgiviness is in the essence of islam.In the name of Allah the Mercifull... Elizabet Bereslavskaya Mary Jane Wilcox: Please free the two men still being held. Show that you are human. Anonymous Anonymous susan Kathleen McCartney Anonymous Todd Benson M. J. Lopez F. Anonymous: I pray for the safe return of the innocent hikers Shane & Josh, just as I did for Sarah's release. These innocent young people deserve to continue on with their lives. I have followed this story from the first when it was in the back section of the newspaper. Anonymous: Please allow these two innocent young men to return home to their friends and families. They are greatly missed. Juanita Starkey: Please do the right thing by these hikers and return them to their countries. Jan Starkey: Please release these hikers. Please be humane and fair and release them. Danna Lieberman Jacqueline Harrell Anonymous Sherry Neal: As a parent I can only imagine what Shane's and Josh's mothers are enduring, which I'm sure is matched by what their sons are going through. Please show some compassion and release these two young men to their families and their country. They've done nothing wrong. Patricio A. Cabezas: Desde Argentina pido la inmediata libertad a los 3!! Patricio Cabezas - Argentina Anonymous Barbara Framm Sarah-Jane Hewitt Patty Bowers Ruth Britton: -please consider this petition and act to free these young men. Anonymous Amy Coit Susan: The people of The United States appeal to the humanity of those who lead the Iranian people. We ask that you release Shane and Josh, two innocent young men. Do not use young innocents to fight a political war. Everyone loses that way. Justin Mannie Rose Lazard: Please free Shane and Josh Dieu! Michael Brian Kerig Anonymous Anonymous: This is a total miscarriage of everything that our free world stands for. These children of America need to be set free to join their families! Kathy Sego Anonymous: Please release these men who have done nothing wrong. May they continue to stay strong and have faith that they to will soon be reunited with their families. ed mcnulty Martha Johnson: I pray for the release of these young men and I know they are innocent. Kimberly Erickson Ryan Henriott: Iran, please do the right and moral thing. Release Shane and Josh. Jocelyn Durant Amber Rockliffe: My friends and family send wholehearted support from Canada. I shall spread the word. Kim Alaimo Alison Cashman Margaret Roberts: We are very anxious to see Shane and Josh come home as soon as possible! This cannot go on! They have committed no crime. We believe Iran is dedicated to justice and truth, and all of Iran wishes to see this end. The world cries out for their freedom. It is right for them to be freed, now! Anonymous: please show the world that your country is compassionate, by releasing these young men. Kristen Langford: This is incredibly sad and unjust. Please release Josh and Shane! Anonymous: Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. anonymous: Please free the hikers! This is so painful to me, as a compassionate person. I can only begin to imagine the pain of these prisoners. Anonymous susan weisberg Michael Kemper: Being an American is not a crime. Unlawful detention is. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattai deserve to be free. Diane Bloom Lucy Thompson: My heart goes out to you and Shane and Josh. I will be praying for their release. You are using this experience for the highest good of all people. Great job being couragous! Your parents and country are proud of you. David McCall Eric Erickson Mae Kaven Stephen Teater Richard Collier Anonymous Chihiro Saito Janeen Tinker David Robertson: Thank you for liberating Sarah. Please end this long incarceration and free Josh and Shane! Carly Hall Lianne Arsenault: Please free Josh & Shane today. Ian Agol Anonymous Jennifer Landes Bob Ogilvie Margaret Ogilvie Anonymous Irene Franck Anonymous Greg Smith Allen Royer: Your compassion can only make the world a better place for us all. Karen Anonymous: Please let them go home! Adina McIndoe Emily Brock Sara R.: Praying for you all and for the release and freedom for Shane and Josh! Lotus Bonadona: Never lose hope. We are all plraying for you. Ryan Johnson: Dear President Ahmadinejad: As you do battle your real and perceived threats to Iran, I hope you will take mercy on and release Shane and Josh. These are young people who are someone's sons, grandsons; brothers who have mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers. Think of your own family when you think of how your are treating these young men. How would you feel under the same circumstances. Sincerely, Ryan Johnson Joan Greene: Please. Please. Please. Tiffany Leek: Please put politics aside and free these two gentlemen to come home to their loved ones. Please decide if this were your family how you would like the outcome to be. These men should be allowed to come home and I implore you to take swift action to make this happen. Oliver Human Karen Jaszewski: I call upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to hold to Iranian law and International law, and free Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families. angela leffelman Rebekah Nagata Johanna Parker Margaret: Praying for Shane and Josh's release; sending much love, strength and support to their families, to Sarah and to her family as well. Tina Queen Mary Kelly Yona Diamond Dansky: Hoping daily for release for Shane and Josh. The world is in great need of their contributions to promoting peace. Michelle Bloomberg: Holding these three as political pons is outragiously off the mark. These guys are innocent, harmless, beautiful people. Even some of the guards would tell you that if they wouldn't lose their jobs for doing so. Lara Jablon Jacki Murray: My prayers have been with all three since their detainment in July 2009. It is imperative that the leaders of Iran release Shane and Josh and no longer use these men as pawns of political discord. They are innocent! Lee Conwaay Marcia Garb Katherine Mott lisa diane: Please free our beloved explorers Anonymous DANNY FOSTER Susan Hirsch: Please send these young men home. Shelley Bender Erica Brescia Silvia Teresa Mansell Jessa Leff Deborah Black Anonymous Amy L. Cohen Anonymous: Spread God's goodness with peace,love & respect amongst all nations of o u r ONE world we share together. Sam C. Gould, M.D.: Islam is full of Mercy and far from oppression. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran can demonstrate to the world the noble qualities that make Islam the World's Great Religion by releasing Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal to the embrace of their loved ones. Pamm Larry Anonymous Mary Schmidthuer: Please releasen our grandsom Shane & his friend Josh so they can be reuninted with Sarah and their familys and friends. FREE ALL THREE Farha Norah O\'Connor adam boxman Lisa M Sullivan Susanna Alberts Anonymous Janice Boich Melody Isis Herman Kim Kennedy White: Please show compassion and free these young men! Thank you! Sarah Hill: Please have compassion. Free the Hikers. Nancy falkow DIANE B CASE Paige Krosby Alicia Jolly Anonymous Kate Lorimer Anonymous: I stand in support of the release of the two young men who are being held captive. My prayers and thoughts are with them, and I ask for their release immediately!! Thira Cocherell Mary Jane Renz Schleich: In the name of all that is good, free these two young men. Peace, Mary Jane Anonymous Anonymous Heather Michon ivette gomez Peter Maddox Sandy Battista Simone Richmond Dustin Eirdosh Jo Quam Anonymous Sakura Saunders Stephanie Matzker Michelle Hesse Patti Langerman Bridget Kelleher Rebecca Redington: As I sit and watch the jubilation of the 33 Chilean miners become reunited with their families, I long for the same jubilation of Shane and Josh to be reunited with their loved ones. They are innocent of any crime, and only want to be with their loved ones again. Please look into your hearts and do the right thing - with their freedom, your reward will be love. Thank you! Brodi Zimmer Malfliet: Please give Shane, Josh and their families their lives back. Humanity over Politics. Free All Three! Anonymous Shoshana Leis: please free all three! Adina Matusow Davies: It's time to send them home! Natalie Avital Sarah Taylor laureen wermerskirchen Susan Silber Anonymous: Please find the goodness in your hearts that our country knows you have, to send these two innocent young men back to their families. Show us the compassion we're hoping to see in you as an example of goodness. Scott Campbell Cambria King: Please Send these children home. They are good people and have done nothing wrong. Miriam Edell: please, let these people go. they have suffered enough. Jolene Mattson Damon Rosario Anonymous: let's end this suffering. There is no reason to keep those men captive. Thank you for releasing innocents. Menelaos: Please, release those travelers who did nothing wrong! This is causing nothing but grief! Betsy Brown Anonymous Anonymous: Please release Shane and Josh immediately without further delay. Emily Dixon Eleanor Stafford: Please imagine your own children in this situation. You, too, would wish that they were granted clemency. Anonymous: Please send the remaining two hikers home. They made a simple mistake and do not deserve to be there. Amanda Aliya Mawani Nancy Ernst Richards: Word is spreading and Canadians everywhere would like to see Josh and Shane freed. I was surprised to find out that the young students in the class I teach even know about this situation. I wonder - How does the government of Iran wish for Canadians to think of them? As a country worthy of respect? If so, then respect for human rights of world citizens is an imperative. President Ahmadinejad, please release these innocent people. Anonymous: josh and shane and the iranian government will be on our minds every day until they are home. please release them so we can put this unfortunate situation behind us and work towards a better relationship between our two countries. Ruth: Please free Josh and Shane...there is no need to show anything other than compassion. Suzanne Gowland Jenny Liang Anonymous Anonymous: Please show mercy to these young men, Shane and Josh, and allow them to return to their lives and loved ones. They should not be punished for a poorly marked border. Monika Kruemmling: Show us the strength of justice and give these hikers access to legal representation. Denying them that only builds mistrust between our nations. It's hard enough to fight for peace here, this only makes it harder. Set free these two boys who have nothing to do with the political war raging in the world. Katherine Kain Anonymous Janet Weber Brenda Ann Davis: Please free Josh and Shane, they have done nothing wrong. Donald Neill David Elliott Lewis, Ph.D.: While I am glad Sarah Shourd was freed, Iran's detention of these hikers has been motivated all along by political considerations that have nothing to do with these three who also appear to have been arrested (abducted) even before they crossed the border. They are sad pawns being victimized by an international power struggle. Iran has behaved very badly. I am hoping they will realize this and then do the right thing – immediately release the remaining two. Nicola Holmes Anonymous Laura Jean Pulscher: Please release the remaining two hikers, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer. Carol Jaskulke Noor@Nelly Nanci Leiching Nitesh Taneja Brigid Herron Anonymous: Please release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families. Daniela Aramay Zoe Rogers Sue Mackowness Mollie West Gregg Pasquali Simon Ou Carolina Rovetta Donzetta Jones Danielle S. Ariela Gina Niebla Monica Ritchie Sheree Viche-Cassell Linda Haas Manley: Release Josh and Shane. They should not be detained any longer. Please show that you know how to do the right thing. Margaret Kuwata Mia Nakano Afsaneh arman Anonymous Anonymous Lorna henkel: I continue to pray for Josh and Shane and am reminded especially as I visit immigrants detained in County jail many for no good reason. Jennifer Smith Anonymous Julia S: send them home. Anonymous: Thank you in advance for your goodwill. Ricky Shepher: It is 2010 this is ridiculous. What proof does Iran have that they were spies. 444 days is BS. What is the US doing about this? Rhonda Alm: Let them go!!! Doesn't your government have better things to do than keep these children captive? I think there are bigger things in the world to worry about than three people who were simply exploring the country and walked into the wrong place. Nicole Hauptman chris christoforo: Please let these young men come home. Pooja Singal: I cannot imagine three people who stand more for peace, justice, and cultural understanding. These are the kind of people that want to help heal wounds from wars and conflicts, not participate in them. Please, please, free Josh and Shane to return home to the love of their friends and families and continue to make the world a better place!!! Jackson Jones: God bless them and their families. Speedy returns... Jessica Darga Annie Paterson Anonymous: Please have compassion and send these young men home. Cindy Caldwell-Games: I pray for Shane and Josh and thier safe return home! Melanie Pickrell: Please they did nothing wrong let them go now Nancy Anderson Matthew Hill Jennifer Horn Robin Aleszczyk: Praying for a safe return for Shane and Josh; and physical and mental healing of Sarah. God's peace to the three of you, your families, and friends. Shawn Stroud: Free them now! Denise Owens: I truely believe that Josh and Shane are innocent. Please show compassion and mercy, and free Josh Bauer and Shane Fattel. Thank you, Sincerely, Denise Owens Lee Ann Stalcup Anonymous Annette Blum Abbey Steele Kaveh Pouladin: Please show these two young men compassion and free them! Anonymous Mesa Inglish Cheryl Dodds Carolina Zena: Please release them!!! Kevin Fox: Your gesture in releasing Sarah from your custody has been noted and greatly appreciated, but we can only be fully thankful for when Shane and Josh are released. Please release the two gentleman today, not tomorrow. The time spent in prison has been served as penalty enough. Please set them free. Please. Dina Solomon Anonymous: Hope. Prayer and daily heartfelt thoughts combine with others to bring freedom to Josh and Shane. May the world learn from this sad injustice. Jennie Heinlein Nora Oliver Patricia Luna: Please free these innocent two men. Lisa Weingarten M. Bartels Irmia Fitrriyah: may you always be protected, and you will step out of that jail! peace. Harry Wyeth: These people were just hikers, for God's sake! Let them go! Susannah Reynolds stan grubbs Maureen Kalscheuer: Peaceful people for a peaceful world. We are one third there. Free Shane and Josh. Caitlin Krowicki Isis Feral Siri Margerin: Please free Shane and Josh now Arturo J. Viscarra Ilana J. Feingold Amy Adrienne Pine Mia Ballard peter: Please show the world that you are a compassionate people and let Shane and Josh go Free. Thank you.Peter Mills South Africa Nancy Barnes: Our religions share God and the father Abraham. I pray to them to keep Josh and Shane safe and healthy and that they will be freed very soon. carl chestler: I support the articulate thoughts as expressed by court carson Ira Wolff Angel Tuyl: Set them free, and show the world harmony, and kindness. Be sensible, and compassionate. Do not waste these innocent, young, people's lives, any more. Anonymous Gudrun Dennis: Please show mercy and allow Shane and Josh to return home. Leigh Barbara Nelson Dawn Murphy Jessica Ferne Peter Ralph: Free! Kylie Jordan Mira Silverman Debbie Crowson Laura Allen: Bring Shane and Josh home now! Jennifer W. Miller Anna Black Morin Christy Gillmore: Please don't let these men suffer any longer. Kris Jacobson jessica ward-denison Della Hansmann: Thank you for your gesture of goodwill in freeing Sarah. Now we ask that you show the same compassion for Josh and Shane and send them home to their families and loved ones. Thank you!!! Jessica Krader Anonymous Anonymous: There is nothing to be gained from their continued detention. Audrey LaRoque Beth Curtis Katie Scranton Darcy Alexandra Anonymous Corinne White Colin Sudweeks: Please show compassion, and show the world that you are not completely hostile as we see you as. Iran, this is a chance to show that! Please for the lives of 2 more young men... Tamara Miller Margaret Fisher Anonymous Jordan Czajka Jaclyn Sirulnik: PLEASE stop this unbelievable injustice from continuing. PLEASE. Francine M Dennis: Please release the hikers. Jaclyn Murray laure carnahan Becky Glupczynski Anna Chiasson: My prayers remain w/all of you. Anonymous Courtney Spence Silvia Ashley Clauer Anonymous: My heart breaks for what all three Americans and their families are going through. It is hard to believe there is a whole nation being run by an inhumane government. Anonymous: They will be free. We know it. Please lets all do what we can. Emma Alpert Nathan Stephens: Release the remaining political prisoners! Sarah Martyn: Please free them! My prayers are with you. Nathanael Matthiesen Anonymous Anonymous robyn tevah: I feel so badly for Shane, Josh, and their families. Any one of my girls could have gone on such a hike! If Iran really cares at all about any respect from the world, they will stop using these kids as pawns and return them to their families. Pamela Reber Anonymous: God bless you for freeing the girl. The two wonderful young men will help you in your release of them. They must be released for that is what is right. And it looks like fate and destiny to know men like this who can help you as we all will, upon their release. Kevin Starbard: In the name of decency and humanity, free these 2 young men, let them be with their families and friends once again. Sister Frances Mary Pierson, OP: + I pray for all involved in this work for justice and freedom. May our world be a place of PEACE for all. Bless you + Rita Carlotto: It seems you are accomplishing nothing by keeping these people prisoners. At least let them defend themselves in court if you truly believe they have done wrong. You could be the beginning of a whole new way of global cooperation. Barbara Kavadias: Thank you for releasing Sarah, however, she will not truly be free until all three are free. Please, release the boys Josh and Shane so that these friends and loved ones can be re-united. Gwen Grierson Eric Prag: It's extraordinarily sad to see that a human being can be detained for making the decision to go on vacation and go on a hike. Let these people go back to their lives and their families. Erin Rath: My church community is praying for each of you and your families. Brian Cantor: Josh, Shane and Sarah clearly did not mean any harm so I, along with the rest of the world, am requesting the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the release of Josh and Shane on the basis of good faith. Please allow them to return home permanently to their families and friends like you allowed Sarah to do. Jane Bruesch Lindsay Mills: Please free Josh and Shane as well, they have been detained long enough!!! Isaac Alexander McShane: We love you all and thank you for the heart felt letter Sarah wrote. SS&J have been in our prayers and will remain there forever. I will continue to do what I can to promote this cause which hits so close to home. I have confidence Shane and Josh will prevail. With love Denise Kinney Kristin Goff Anonymous Susie Joana McFarland Ronald Sanson Stresser Jr: Freedom for Shane and Josh! Meg Dugan Lily Aquarian: Answer the prayers of the families and friends of Shane and Josh and let them go now! The world is watching and waiting and I know you will do the right thing. Tiffany DeJaynes Anonymous Sammy LaBrasca Laura-Marie Taylor Matt Rossi: Please allow these two men to come home....they are of no threat to you or your country... and this serves no one. Corrine Glesne: Please let all three be free Sarah Anonymous Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh........they are dearly missed and needed by their Loved Ones. Tara Spellman Anonymous Joe Warrick Agnieszka Marczyk josh dell Janet Pruden Barnes: Please, in the spirit of justice and human compassion, find it in your hearts to release these young people back to the arms of their families. They did nothing to intentionally breach your border or threaten your national security. The time they have spent detained in your country should be more than enough consequence for their perceived border breach. They are simply young people, full of love and the desire for innocent exploration of the world. They could be anyone's children, even your own. Please find it in your hearts to return them now to their families. Tauni Richardson Carrie Heather Harbicht: Welcome Home Sarah! Please let Shane and Josh be free as well. Our prayers are with Jen Anonia: Shane and Josh, like Sarah, deserve to be released on humanitarian grounds. Please release them without delay! Anna Brittain sharon martinas: the hikers are hikers. they are not spies. please free them immediately! Brian Thomas Anonymous Sherry Smith Carlyn Wilson: Thank you for freeing Sarah. We now pray for the release of Shane and Josh, as well. Jenny Yang: freedom is intertwined. mine with yours, yours with theirs, theirs with mine. my respect to my dear friends. i hope they come home soon. Emma Coleman: Free them now, their families need them. Anonymous: FREE THE HIKERS. Tess Oliver Louis Hall: Freedom for all, including young Iranian protesters! Randy Barish: Shane and Josh simply need to be released immediately. There is no justification for their continued detention. They are completely innocent of the crime they've been accused of in your country. Keeping them imprisoned on these charges is a cruel crime that is an agony for their parents and friends. For the sake of humanity, please release them now. Alice Lewis: PLEASE! Jess Lerner Lola Lynch: Do the right and moral thing, free these young, innocent men NOW. Emily Keaty: We need Josh and Shane outside of prison walls. They have much to do here on earth. Wherever there is something lacking please have it be replaced with love. May the Iranian officials are making decisions about Shane and Josh have everything they ever wanted. May their lives be filled with such joy, peace, and love that they no longer feel the need to unjustly detain anyone any longer. Ben Dovre: Please free all three! These famalies have had enough pain in their lives. Katie Sobering Lacey Donle: Thank you for releasing Sarah. PLease release Shane and Josh immediately Tina Stein Lynn French Jessica Anne Kao: Please free these innocent men. Anonymous Bill Galic Paula Hertfelder harry greenberg: Shane and Josh must be freed and be reunited with their families. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by their continued imprisonment. I pray for their successful immanent release Anonymous Sarah Ryan: If they were your own, would you consider your actions differently. Only with compassion can the world thrive. Sarah Jean Travis Hannah: It's not fair. Stephanie Swirtz Anonymous Ben Burrows: Incarceration is not an answer to democracy, either in the United States or in Iran. Punishment is an unpredictable motivator, and often produces its own underground. monica brown Anonymous Anonymous Azita Nahai Tai Salisbury Jared Weber: ~Please~ Linda Descoteaux: Iran does not benefit by holding two young hikers in jail. If the point is to deter others from enjoying the beauty of your country, you have succeeded. Please send these two young men home today. Redwood Mary: The worst of posturing and politics have been dragged into the lives of these innocent hikers. Iran brutal is to its own people -- at least be compassionate to those who are living examples of non-violence. Richard A Newton Anonymous: If they are spies.. than call me.. I'll sell you all the Eifel Tower! Zach Cashero Holly Seplocha Noreen Ramsden: Set them free in the name of justice and compassion Anonymous: I will pass this letter on and put your name up to think positively everyday. Hold on! Kimberlee Kraus de Korte: Sending hope from Amsterdam. Melissa Millbourn Sarah Davidson Julie van Niekerk: Only a tiny, very tiny bit of common sense to know that they do not belong in prison. Anonymous: I wish and pray so much for the release of Josh and Shane. This is not fair that they have to sit there in prison for a simple mistake. How can Iran expect to become better and more respected if they hold people in prison for nothing. Shame on Iran. God Bless Sara for her courage and strength. Stay positive. linda Dale Anonymous Anonymous Karen Thorn Shrock Kathryn Hewitt Anonymous alison Brody Erin Burns-Maine summer kluytman Bonnie Schubert Laura Durington: Praying every day for Shane and Josh's immediate and peaceful release! Jill Fryling: Shane and Josh have served enough time in prison. Please set them free. Anonymous Anonymous Helen McCullough: God Bless. Love is with you all, now and always. Freedom is an eternal attribute of all that Love created. It can not be lost. Those who imprison are imprisoned. Pray for their release. Stop 'fighting' and remember Who You Are. Peace. Love. Joy. All is well. The world is full of miracles for those with eyes to see. Thank you for being Love. Perry Watts: Iran, please show some compassion. Laura, my thoughts and prayers are with you. beth silver Alicia: Please free Shane and Josh. They have a great respect for your culture and in no way embody any hatred toward Iran or any Iranians. They mistakenly crossed the border into your country while enjoying the beautiful country. They are not spies for our government. Instead, they are two young men who respect and appreciate other cultures. Their families love and miss them very much. Thank you for releasing Sarah in an act of compassion. Please do the same for Shane and Josh. Anonymous: Praying for the the release and safe return home of Shane and Josh. I hope Sarah is finding peace and doing well. Genica Robbins ILEANA DE LA TORRE: These were three hikers exploring your side of the world with no other pretentions than to be in touch with nature. Please give them the freedom they deserve. You will become a better understood and more respected people if you are as generous with Shane and Josh as you were with Sarah. Thank you, JEANNE FREEBODY: SARAH, WE ARE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE HOME! MAY EVERYTHING BENEVOLENT SURROUND JOSH AND SHANE- AND MAY THEY BE FREE. Cindy T.: These three have done no wrong hiking in your part of the world. They were there to enjoy the beauty of the area as many other tourists have done. Thank you for releasing Sarah. It is now time to free Josh and Shane as well. Shealynn swift Anonymous Nilba Melo Alison MacKenzie Tina Tsai Avery S. MacKenzie Tara Hetz Anonymous: Josh and Shane need to be allowed to come home. Do not make them examples to the world. We won't hear it. Anonymous Gesine Heller: please release these hiking young people! Jocelynn Pena: Send the hikers home!!!!! Anonymous: Prayers continue for your strength and healing.... Anonymous Crystal Kiekel: This atrocity has gone on for far too long already. Who among us is safe in a world where innocent people are held without charges or hope for release? So long as our friends are treated in this inhumane way, we are all imprisoned in this madness. Suzanna Challen: support! Anonymous craig blankenship Gloria Campuzano: Peace and hope. Anna Levitt Anonymous Jeni Paquette: Do the right thing. Maribel da Mata: please please free them!!! Beth Sarah Dreher Catherine Ruhm Ginny Ladd Margaret Brummel: Just as egregious as the unjust imprisonment of young hikers Shane and Josh is the disregard of Iranian law. Please consider that law and free these young men. assalaamu alaykum Randy Kiekel Meredith Rosenberg Eric Frank Amanda Bloom Avery Livengood Katherine Ball Anonymous: Free All Three! Valerie Oviatt: To whom it may concern, I am a mother. I can not even imagine the deep and constant pain that Shane and Josh's families have every day. Every minute. Every second. Put yourself in thier place, please. If you are a parent, I hope that you never have that pain as I never have. I know that you are compassionate. Please free Shane and Josh and let the world know it too.Thank you. Emily Sudd: Bring them home! Anonymous Erica Dubey Erica Lundin Anonymous: Peace and loving kindness to all. PLEASE let these innocent men free! kristjan nielsen corinne wickersham Therese S David Simmons Kylie Dusseau Tami Boettcher Pat Schmidthuber: We love you Shane, Sarah & Josh and can't wait to see you all together. Its been way to long!!!! Alexis Anonymous: Please demonstrate your generosity and compassion and release them now. charley knox: I am a combat veteran. I know the damage a nation state can do to the value of their standing among nations. My nation has done that. But, there are good people in my nation as well as yours that can bring about the re-establishing of a positive standing in the most human of ways. My friends and I were very encouraged at the release of Sarah during Eid. You as a nation set a most humanitarian example of who you are. You have a great precedent now set. You can only gain by releasing Shane and Josh. Thank you for releasing Sarah... a bold, brave and most humane effort on your part. I and my friends are looking forward to your continued good intentions with the release of Josh and Shane. In growing respect, Charley Knox and friends. Anonymous Dwight Marsh: They meant no harm. Please set them FREE! Julien Koetsch Komal Shah kiran: send these people home they are detained for too long without any charges ... Rose Atkins Brett Buchheister: Send them home!!! Thanks to Cathy Kerbert for all her support! Laura Beaulac Bonnie Stager: Please, please let them come home. Carl Mautner Kirti: Please send these people home! Yong Lee Cynthia Kathryn Umbarger: Free them NOW. Britta Tarvis Anonymous Alison McGuire: Thinking about you guys everyday. As in the words of Bob Marley, "make way for the positive day". All of the positivity, faith, and love is going to bring these guys very soon! Jacque Muncy Heather Bell Anonymous: As a lifelong hiker and backpacker I hope you will consider the innocence of these young people. They were not interested in spying on Iran. They were interested in walking among the beautiful waterfalls and mountains of Iraq. If they strayed over a border that was not marked, it is imperative that the trail be clearly marked. Anonymous: We continue to pray for compassion and the release of Shane and Josh. Anonymous Jessica Ryan Westle Anonymous C Caouette wes parker Katie Moore Kimberly Humphries: It's time for compassion. Please release Shane and Josh. Life is so short, let them live it in freedom. Anonymous Keri Tierney Hannah Stromberg Anonymous: Iran, stop playing politics with Shane and Josh and release them immediately. Anonymous Michelle Trout: You are all in my prayers. Mark DJ Aldiss Wendy Archer: Free them. Now. They are young adults who should be home with their families. They have their whole lives to look forward to. They might be destined to do great things, they might not. But free them. Now. Eileen & Peter Tierney: You are in our thoughts and prayers constantly!! Anonymous Pamela Green Mario Wells: God bless them and keep them safe until they are released. Anonymous: PLEASE FREE THE HIKERS. Jade Walters Anonymous Ann DiCaterino Anonymous Eva Shannon John L. Floyd: THE US LOVES IRAN! PLEASE free Shane and Josh! Anonymous: please free Josh and Shane as they can do so much in their freedom to better the lives of people in the Middle East and all over the world. They are gifted people with compassion, heart, & intelligence. More than anything, it's so obvious they're peace activists - something we can all gain from. Please free them... Anonymous Mac Lingo: Please let them go, there is no need for this. Anonymous Sabrina: Please find it in your hearts to have mercy on these men as Allah/G-d has had mercy on you and grant them freedom. Anonymous Natalie Hamingson Darline Stacy Anonymous David Morley: Out of respect for yourselves and the very life that you live each morning after you wake up,please find it in your humanity to free the remaining hikers. V. Lujan: my heart has been hurting since the day I heard about this story and I am waiting to celebrate the homecoming of Shane and Josh and put an end to all of this for all of you. My heart goes out to you and I pray for all of you every night. Anonymous: Please release these innocent young people. Sharon Vaughn Anonymous Ginger Gillenwater Nanlouise Wolfe: There is nothing positive gained by continuing this imprisonment of Josh & Shane, innocent of harm to Iran & its people. Help make a more just world where human rights and kindness prevail. Mark McNally Anonymous Autumn Juetten Peter Scott: Please return these individuals home where they belong with their families. Kelli Baptist: My prayer is that God's hand will be upon these men as they are being held for no reason. They are not criminals and should not be treated as such. FREE ALL THREE!!! Tracey Hoffenberg Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh Susan Nelson Michelle Wassenaar Paul Zeolla: I support the release of Shane and Josh. Please show your human side by releasing these two men because there is no proof they are spies or any other reason why they should be held prisoner. Aimee Bauer: Stay strong Shane and Josh! We hope to see you soon! Anonymous Justin Lebanowski Jenny Breeggemann Lixza PETER PAUL HANNAH: JOSH FATTAL AND SHANE BAUER ARE TWO WONDERFUL YOUNG MEN. JOSH AND SHANE HAVE COMMITTED NO CRIME. AS A COMPASSIONATE MAN, I PETITION. I URGE THE IRANIAN LEADERS, IRANIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE IRANIAN MILITARY TO RETURN SHANE AND JOSH SHORTLY TO THERE FAMILY THAT AWAIT PATIENTLY, HOPING AND PRAYING TO BE REUNITED SOON WITH THERE FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THE IRANIAN LEADERS, IRANIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE IRANIAN MILITARY GRACIOUSNESS WOULD BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED AND A STEP TOWARD TO CONSTRUCTING A BRIDGE TO SUSTAINABLE ENRICHING PEACEFUL FUTURE. THANK YOU Reis Taylor: The United States government does not care about hikers, just it's politics and "the economy". Sadly, there is no political pressure of any substantial degree that makes the release of these Hikers a relief for you in Iran. Evidently your actions are meant to point out to the world how little we Americans support each other in times of need. (and of course it is working) This matter should have been addressed and resolved in full, 450 days ago. How embarrassing for us in this country, and how sad this is for all who know these young men. One day we will not ask for their release. One day we will learn to negotiate like the wise leaders of Iran (I respect very much your determination and ability to put your plan into direct action without needless debate) and order you to do it immediately. Until then, Obama will be president. Anonymous Lisa Bailey Susan L. Pozniak: My prayers and positive thoughts for your release are with you daily. My God bless us with your present in our free world again soon. Hang in there. So many people love you. Jennifer King Joan Carpenter Ailed Rivera: Please free Shane Bauer & Josh Fattal!!! Marianne Schwab andy kreamer: now! andrea willems John: Please do it. Anonymous Alison McCoy Jeremy L Kosmin Anonymous Vicki H: Praying for justice now Kristin Lindstrom Sheila Snow Lynne Fairfield Terry and Shari Lusignan Adam Martina Tom Holub Tom Shelton: My thoughts are with you all, every day. Free all three! Margaret Lawson Mike Roberts: Shane, Josh, and Sarah have been in my and my wife's thoughts since their ordeal began. Following their detention has been harrowing, and its time to bring this to the only compassionate and morally responsible end and set Shane and Josh free. orion elenzil Anna Weichselbraun Lee Worden Kristi Brummitt: All 3 are innocent, Free all 3!! Jules Kite Elizabeth Barbieri: free all three! Mary Ann Tenuto: The allegations are not supported by the facts. Let them go! Ramy Adel Sarah Bannen Robert Crowe: Please act in the honor of your office and release these young men, this would aid in softening the US/Iran relationship and the view of your beautiful nation by the entire global community. Alexei Chijoff-Evans maryneiden: In the name of our God, please free these innocent young men as soon as possible! Rikke Bornemann Carlsen Stephen Tate: Free the hikers Patricia Carbajales Jesseca Bagherpour Tabitha Groce: Sending loving, healing energy to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in hopes of a softening of their hearts and a new found desire to be kind and generous by releasing Shane and Josh allowing them the opportunity to be home with their families soon. "Be the change" Anonymous Eric Lendl Rebecca Stoloff Patrick Font Victor Clark: Please, Free All Three. Erick Matsen: Please bring this unfortunate incident to a speedy close, and let the innocent come home! Allan Sly ZAIA kristina mikrot: its gone on too long!! Anonymous t-ogham\'hogan: LET THE HIKERS GO.....HANG TOUGH JOSH! beth schecter: Please free the hikers! Annette Halpern James Hoefnagels Lindsay Smetana: These men did nothing wrong. Holding them is a grave violation of human rights. They must be released. Nyla Helgason: We keep faith that Iran will bestow the same compassion and humanity upon Josh and Shane as they have done with Sarah. Matt Townsend Kumud Singh: In understanding our anger, we can choose the right path. We all have prejudices. There's no such thing as bad people; we learned these reactions from many places, people, and situations. Using innocent lives, torturing them to achieve our unreasonable goals & adopting inhuman ways, are acts of shame. Shame on humanity. Release them. Be courageous and tread a righteous path. Broaden your perspective. Anonymous: I would urge the clerics and political personnel involved in this debacle to consider the unintended consequences of conducting a cross-border operation in order to kidnap foreign citizens and hold them for ransom. Please release these children. They have harmed no one, they are not members of any intelligence gathering organisation, and by freeing them, you encourage good will and humanity in various communities. Continuing to hold them and threatening harm to them does no good to anyone. Peace to you and yours. Andrew Stegemann blake nemec Jennifer Jamieson: I am Canadian, and believe Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were victims in this situation. They are people who were there because they appreciated the Iraqi culture. This appreciation of a country so far away from home shouldn't be punished because this type of mindset unites different cultures. They are an example to the world of appreciating other cultures but instead they are being punished. Nina Miller Serena Senske: Praying and Wishing for a safe return! <3 Tena Sachu: Please free the hikers. HAYLEY CHADWICK Jane Mann Anonymous: Please free these innocent men. Carly Edwards Cynthia Orchard: I am very sad to hear the that Shane and Josh have been detained for such a long time for so minor an error, if any. I do not know them personally, but a friend of mine does, and I believe it when she says they intended no harm. I hope that the Iranian government will have mercy on them and their families and friends, who have suffered and are suffering. If the point of their detention was to teach them a lesson to be more cautious or respectful of Iranian territory, I'm sure they have learned it by now, many times over. If the purpose was to send a message to the rest of the world, it has been received. Their continued detention serves no further purpose, and their release would be merciful, just, and good in the sight of God and humanity. We are all brothers and sisters in this world. I hope and pray for these young men to be released as soon as possible. Naomi Landig Louise Smiley Louisa Stickel: These two young men are exceptional and innocent citizens of the world and as such must be set free C P: Solidarity from Sydney, Australia - I'll be keeping in touch and doing what I can. Julie Ryan: The whole world loses respect for those who commit acts of inhumanity; the whole world loses as long as just one person falls victim to an inhumane act. Free the hikers and the whole world becomes a better place. Jemell Solomon: If you let the hikers go many good things will come to those who do the right thing. Do not make this a political tool to imprison innocent people that have nothing to do with the intelligence community. May god be Josh and Shane as they have been wrongly accused for Jesus Christ walk with you. Anonymous Eva Shannon Anonymous Anonymous Sandra: If God exists he will enlighten the people concerned with Josh and Shane's case to free these innocent men who are not part of this political drama going on in this world. Please God free these men so they can be united with their friends and families... My prayers are with you Anonymous: Please free these innocent people. To Sarah, Josh, Shane you are all in our thoughts and prayers! Stay strong and never give up! shahad kareem: we, people in iraq support your case and ask iran to show some compassion. we wish if there was something we can do may god be with you Saleh Ali: Hi i am from Saudi Arabia AND i want to say to government of Iran,PLEASE Free Shane and Josh! Pascale Tabet: These poor hickers committed NO CRIME - please free them... they should not be paying for Political mistakes!!! FREE THEM! Heather Farrell Rochelle MAria Elizabeth Sanchez Ho Anonymous: Our hearts and prayers are with you Elaine Walsh Craig Kearney Mary Isdahl: Please free Shane and Josh! Adrian Wilson: This has gone on for far too long. Iran needs to stop playing political games with these two young men's lives. TIM GARSON: SHANE & JOSH YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN! NEVER QUIT; NEVER GIVE UP & NEVER STOP PRAYING! FOCUS YOUR MINDSET; KEEP YOURSELVES UP & POSITIVE! EAT & DRINK YOUR FILL! EXERCISE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO! NEVER GIVE UP HOPE OR YOUR BELIEF IN GOD & YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS & OUR ALLIES! WE WILL GET YOU BOTH OUT! SEMPER FIDELIS, GRIZ zahra: Please free the hikers Laurie Lowrey Catherine: No reason to keep them Natalie Lozowski: Please let them go. Jesse Natske Anonymous: Please free the three absolute innocent hikers Anonymous Annette Abrams Roy Chang: It is illogical and unnecessary to hold someone for more than a year for illegal entry. Eric Mayle: I understand arrests are made for political reasons, but there is a time to put politics aside, and I believe that time is now. Keeping political prisoners is one thing, but the constant violation of international law being shown by a refusal to either free or try these men is shameful. Chris Rapp: One-third free. Let's finish what we started. Robin Clark Melissa Fort: Shane and Josh must be freed.........will be freed.......... Laura Kaplan David Rich Cheryl klemmetsen: I support the release of these innocent men-men who are so full of peace & yearning. Please...have mercy on these young men and send them back home to all who wait in prayer. Derek Downey: Please free my friends. They are wonderful people that have committed no crimes. They have gifts to share with the world. Why punish them for crimes they had no part in? Ryan Davies: It's been far too long. Give these boys their lives back. Todd Richard: Stop violating international law. Send these children home immediately. You are further proving your nation to be a pariah within the international society. Hold on boys, hopefully you will be released (or removed) from your false imprisonment soon. rachel barnett Sarah Cerles Sherry Booher-Derby: Please find the grace in your heart to release these fine young men. Erin Y. Anonymous Kelsey Matthei Diane M. Tropia Anonymous: Our prayers continue for Shane and Josh! Ellen O\'Neill Janet Becker Kristen Schweiloch Alejandro Flores: FREE all THREE!!! It has been long enough, it's time for them to go back home. Lydia Panas: Please free these men. They are decent and positive human beings. There is so much ugliness in the world, let's hear it for something good. Scott Rabinowitz: The sooner the better! Stephan Nance: All three of these hikers are innocent. Release Shane and Josh so that they and Sarah can finally begin what will surely be a lifelong process of coping with this nightmare. Anonymous April Kamen Laura Flynn Anonymous Yesenia Chavez: Stay strong!You will be together again soon! Free all three! Greg Jalbert: I urge all government officials to protect their integrity and reputation and put an end to exploitation of innocent people for political gain. I urge the Iranian and American officials to end the unjust detention of innocent prisoners. There must be public trials with just cause if necessary, but delaying justice for political gains is damages credibility. Free Shane and Josh, as well as all other political prisoners held by the United States, Iran and elsewhere. I urge that governments worldwide make a speedy transition to clean, safe, sustainable energy systems and discontinue dirty coal, nuclear and fossil fuel-based energy systems as soon as possible. The world's climate, environment and humanity are suffering greatly already from massive climate disruption. Nations must end the corruption of power and finance and move immediately towards effective collaboration on sustainable, clean energy technologies, energy conservation, and ultimate sustainable harmony with the ecosystems of the Earth. End the imperialist and ruinous exploitation of the world's resources for short term gratification at the expense of future generations. Work for peace for all beings, all individuals of all species. Evangelia Manthoyianni Yasmin: free them please ! Melissa Schmidt Anonymous: enough. Bonnie Abaunza Natalie Doerre ron demarco: Free them please. Michael R. Mitchell: I believe that the continued imprisonment of these two innocent men is a disgrace to your country. No good can come of this and your standing in the international community is lessoned by holding them one minute further. There is no crime and by your country trying to prove that there was in only hurting your standing in the world community. For the good of your country, for the good of the world community, please release these two innocent men before more damage is done. Jené DeSpain Lora Schoenberg rozanne smeed Debra Lozon: Free these innocent people. They have committed no crime. Kristin Shisler Tom Morse Cynthia Evans: Peace, hope, and tranquility will hopefully rally alongside truth. I hope Shane and Josh are released soon and our family's prayers for this go to you and yours, and that of those who have the power to make a decision to do the honorable thing and release them. Tim Gulley Katelyn Martens: Free all three! Anonymous: I'm kurdish and support these young men. If anyone we kurds should sympatize and know the feeling of imprisonment, of injustice and wrong. Release the innocents! Madeleine Fairbairn Cait Quinlivan Erica Work Aram Azez: If Iran is an Islamic country, then it should not hold these hikers for it's political purposes against the US. Anonymous Josh Rogowsky: It is wrong to detain people who have done no wrong. Free Josh and Shane!! Nancy Campeau Shayna Cohn Whitney Smith: As a mother, my heart breaks to think of what it must be for Shane and Josh's mothers to have their children unjustly held. Yvonne Seale Elizabeth Foster: It is unacceptable that there isn't outcry and organized efforts to free these boys. Catherine Denial: Thank you for the compassion you showed in freeing Sarah; please extend the same compassion to Josh, Shane, and their families. Sarah Jessica Merrell Amber Anonymous DK Dr. Isis Duran Anna Kaufman Ginger Roberts: Please let them go!!! Ted Gardner: The government of Iran has no right to do this. Alice Barsegian Jennifer Tinker: Send these hikers home!!! Christopher Hernandez Michelle Phineas Alex Corona Anonymous: These kids need to go home with their families. Mary ehrman: Free the hikers today. Anonymous Ernest Anonymous: FREEDOM Astoria: FREE THE HIKERS!!!! Anonymous: Free these innocent Americans NOW!!!! Don Burnett: God bless them and may they be reunited with their loved ones soon. Anonymous: Freedom Anonymous: Hopefully sanity will prevail and they will be freed. Anonymous: free them!!! Wendy Woodruff: It is time we put the politics away and allow for humanitarism to come through. Regardless of our cultures, we want fairness and justic when warranted. There is no justice in holding the two boys. Anonymous: am a foreigner and i know how it feels to be in a foreign country! being behind bars is more worse,this Americans are innocent and the whole world knows that.stop playing politics with human beings they don't deserve it. free Shane and Josh they don't deserve to be in jail!!! Abraham A Guerrero: I would like the government and people of Iran to know that even though I sign this petition asking for the release of these hikers, I don't have any negative views of Islam or the people of Iran. I hope this will be seen as a misunderstanding and they will be returned home safe, its never to late to do the right thing. I hope to be able to visit and experience the beauty of the land and the people. Shawn De Alejandro Wendy Buckley: Please show compassion and let them go free, home to their families. Thank you. Mark Trujillo: Freedom is for all,heed to our call please and let Shane and Josh go free. marcela martinez Monica Serna: Please free them! Stephanie Blake: Please free Josh and Shane!!!! christina Garcia Anonymous Sheryl corral: God bless them and bring them home safely Ilaria Schiavo angela paterson Nadia Morones Betsy Sprouse Elizabeth Yakan Zach Posnan Anonymous: We respectfully request the immediate release (& safe return) of Josh and Shane... And we thank you for your release of Sarah. Anonymous Susan Goldberg elizabeth: Please FREE these innocent people!! Elizabeth Kushner Anonymous anonymous: free the hikers!!!! Donna J. Berkowitz: Please free these innocent young men and let them get back to their lives and families. Barbara Stroud Carrie Gouskos Priestess Miriam R. Williams: Our prayers and best wishes for the universe will brig fredom to these young people very soon! God Be With you through these time! Nikhil Prasanna John Ferrarone Dagan R. Bayliss Lindsay Tabas Teresa Ferrante Lori Geri Ginsburg Chirstopher Rollins Hannah rebecca Ryan Dana Cardullo Sofia Iaquinto Anonymous: Let justice & mercy prevail. Anonymous: Please give this your urgent attention. Sarah Theismann Mary Arfmann: Release these young men who have committed no crime. Maggie Carrigan Lisa Chatley Anonymous: These people were simply hikers who stayed over Iran's boundary line by accident, and they should be freed. Whyte L. G. Matthews Chris M. Schrader Reuben Burrows: Every day they are not released without having a fair trail (or just a trial, alone) is another day the nation of Iran displays itself as being more and more corrupt. Try a new strategy. Free all three! (NOT JUST RELEASE ON BAIL) Daryna Yakusha: Please let them go Heather Hurwitz Sylvina Mulcahy: Free the hikers!!! They are innocent!!! Lori McAllister Craig Fiels Matt Klemp April Easley Leilani Durbin Anonymous Anonymous Ruth Weinberg: Please release these innocent hikers immediately. Sincerely, Ruth Weinberg Michael Alpe: Horrifying and unjust, help free Josh and Shane, and return them to their families x Anonymous: Please free the remaining hikers. They are innocent, there is no reason to imprison them. Mary Johnson Panche Daljev Anonymous Kristin Ballif: As a mother I ache for these mothers and all mothers who experience heartache concerning their loved ones. Exercise mercy to these two young men and let them go home to their loved ones. John Christoforo: Free them all now! Anonymous: I ask myself in everyday situations, "what is the right thing to do?" despite popular opinion. The right thing is often the hardest thing but doing the right thing is also the easiest thing to live with. Kimberley Norman Debra Sachs Carrie Dubin Aguilar Whitey: End ALL Borders!!! Mary & Ciaran Trainor-Brigham: You KNOW these are innocents ~ PLEASE do right by them for the betterment of all concerned. jennifer bullock Anonymous: remember the golden rule and know that setting people free is the right thing to do James Gentry Kendal Herring Anonymous: They have been detained for nothing serious. Please All Three must be Free! Ashley Ziegler: Positive actions create positive returns. Thank you for considering our request. Hannah Crouch Anonymous: Please, please, please have mercy and let these men be free! Diana Pierce: I respectfully ask that the two remaining hikers be freed. They are young and certainly did not realize their error. If these were your sons, I am sure you would want them to be released. They have good morals and lot to give the world including your world, the Muslim world. I am extending this with only respect to you. David Lindsey Leslie Porter: I fully support Sarah, Shane, and Josh. My heart goes out to all three of them and their families. I am outraged at the lack of justice they have been shown.There are more pressing matters to worry about than falsely charging three innocent hikers who were simply indulging in their love of the environment and traveling. FREE ALL THREE!!!!!!! Allison Smith April Patterson Anonymous Anonymous Twila Bamford Daniel Snodgrass Valentina: I don't know Shane and Josh, but recently I briefly met Alex Fatal. I didn't follow what happened and I didn't know much about the case. I didn't know who Alex was but all I've seen was that Alex is somewhere else and his eyes were constantly on the verge of tears. I realized what was going on through Free All Three. It is wrong to judge or assume that somebody is an enemy based on their nationality and country of origin. Most of Americans are people who never benefit from wars, hate and political decisions made by their leaders. I am not American, and I am just trying to understand what would it be like to be in the skin of the two detainees, their mothers, loved ones and friends. I spent years in refugee camp separated from my family, years separated from my mother, grandmother etc. because I am an immigrant. If there is any injustice caused to Iran, we all know, these two young man where never part of such pain infliction, in contrary, they would probably be the first to step up and fight against it. So I would like to ask Iranian leaders who have children to imagine for a moment how would they feel if their children were for no meaningful and logical reason taken away from them and held detained for so long as Josh and Shane are. Let's disregard the fact that you are powerful decision makers now and focus on the fact that you are parents and your children are your greatest wealth. Even if you were my greatest enemy, I would never wish you the loss of your innocent children. I hope you will understand our appeal because Sarah's release tells me that no matter what political relations are dictating, you showed us that you are human worthy of our hopes. Thank you and please let the boys out. Tracy Lambrecht Anonymous Mandy Cimino John Kaltenstein wilfried hoog: what have they done?. they live a life in solidarity, and freedom for all people without borders and nations --- Tiffany: These two people should be released-they do not deserve to be there. Please have some compassion S.N. PARITSIS Nancy Butters Anonymous: Please release them. As you may have seen even on tv Sarah has never soken wrong about your govt. Please show the mercy of your God. Rev. Joel Sanabria: I pray for their freedom and well being. Carol &Brent Manley: It's time to release Shane & Josh and return them to their families Anonymous: As an Iranian I would like to say: sorry for what done by the government of Iran, and hope the two hikers will be back to their families and country as soon as possible Amber P Renee Fitzpatrick Anthony Rivera John Barry Rose Hetcher David Smith Amy Rutherford Meghan Rutherford Anonymous: let's use facebook and twitter to spread the message!!! Paolo Merolla L.N Scott Horowitz Michele Herrington Anonymous Victoria Hutchinson Anonymous Anonymous Kaila Estrada Jake Boise Manuel Jimenez Jr Jennifer Bell: Please send them home!!!!! Anonymous: Shane, Josh and Sarah are not pawns or tools to gain power or nuclear capability or respect. They're human beings, with rights and protections. You've broken laws and given people from all over the world another reason to villify Iran. Set them all free, and you will have given those same people a reason to reconsider. Free them. Ruben Padilla Miriam Rudnick Elana Teitelbaum Jane Cutting Lind k Nicholson pam mccracken Catherine: I only but wish the best for all the them! Please allow them to be released soon. My heart aches for them and their families and my thoughts will be with them. clare yetter Elizabeth Thomas Laura Devet: I can not begin to communicate the anger and sorrow I have in thinking of these three young activists being held away from their families, friends, the outdoors. It pains me to think of such mistreatment to three individuals who have proved to be nothing but good-will doers, fighting for peace throughout different countries. Please, please please send these beautiful young men back to their homes in America. I will pray every day for their safe return. PLEASE!! Sharon S Walker: I am praying that the two remaining young men will be rejoined with their families soon. Amen Anonymous Stephen Ejack Davina Schleusener: Please release these two innocent men and let them return to their loved ones. Elizabeth Donaldson Amber: My family send their support to all involved in this horrific occurrence. RELEASE THE HIKERS! Jan: Really moved by the story. Good luck! Leigh Braden: My young son is learning every day, the world is as big as our backyard, and he knows no fear he is cradled and loved and protected from morning to night. I look into his beautiful eyes and am reminded of Shane and Josh and their mothers, all in captivity, all unfree. My heart breaks, please let Shane and Josh be free. They need to return home, they have committed no crime…. mend their broken hearts and give these mothers back their sons. Tori fredrica duke: these kids have done nothing wrong, everyone knows it, please send them home Madeleine Gallay: Please release Shane and Josh. Sandra Alletto: Free our citizens. They are not a threat to you. This is totally unbelievable that your country would arrest innocent Americans! Should innocent Iranians in this country be treated the same way??? I would not be in favor of that either! Send them back home. They have children. Irene Freedman: Please free these innocent Americans. They have been imprisoned long enough!!! Jason Potter Leslie Kleinberg dylan weinheimer Martin Brezina: I would like to say that Im with them in my mind. I really trust in their soon relase. Anonymous: These boys need to be home with their families NOW! Anonymous David Kim Anonymous Jo Ann Sondheimer Anonymous: Listen Up Please I atolla You realease our family now* Have a most sacred Day and Pardon our dumbshitt idiotic meddlesome country shitt for Fucking with Ya's* Please realease My PalsOr WARRR*** Glen Leon General EL Iranian Freind Forvere Buckett LEEE's Bad ASS BRother Anonymous:** Humanity before politics! Leslie Dreyer: Please free Shane and Josh. They are peaceful beings, humanitarian workers, and fellow humans working for the common good. Please differentiate these compassionate souls from the American government. Free them so that they can resume life with their friends, families and communities and continue making the world a better place. Lara Williamson Anonymous Anonymous: from belgium please let them free!It was just a vacation trip! Nathalie Van Breen Adina Luncan Greta Vladeanu: They deserve freedom !! Anonymous Gary Brogan Jr. Dennis: Not a day goes by that I don't take a moment and just feel those poor kids needlessly being held captive. I don't know them at all but I can just feel the despair of them and of their families and sympathize with what they are going through. I have hope that with more awareness and public attention that the humanity left in the world will see reason and finally make them free. It is truly shameful to all responsible parties that it is taking this long to have any real action. Jessica Wisemiller: Please free Josh and Shane! Todd Davies: I traveled with Josh in mexico and can say with confidence that he is not a spy. He is a serious activist who has worked for peace and justice in many places around the world. I do not know Shane personally, but I am confident that he too was merely hiking and should be released along with Josh Please release both of them as soon as possible. Thank you. Carol Kaufman Bob Nybe Venus: This blatant political strategy for leverage served no purpose in the end. When the kidnappers realize this, i am confident all will be set free. This is a karmic wake up call for the three and their families to evaluate their lives to see if they have themselves taken part in imprisoning other animals with similar injustice or worse. may COMPASSION prevail for everyone! Sarah Endsley: May God save and have mercy on Josh and Shane. C. Putnam: Please release Shane and Josh to come home and be with their loving families and friends.They are missed greatly... Mindy Fried Papagena Robbins: Please show to the world what we all know is true, that Iran is a peace loving and compassionate nation. Angela Perri Anonymous K. Lea: Please free these individuals. They deserve to be with their families and they deserve to have their lives back. Marla Alexandra Miller: It's not fair to keep these innocent individuals in detainment for so long! Marc: Peace on Earth Liz M. Colleen Hackley Chris Hackley Theresa Beijerbergen Timothy Seitz-Brown: Let the prisoners go free! Vikki Rosenbaum Geoff Parsons Anonymous Margarita Vasquez Cardenas Arthur A. Yatsko: It's time to let these hostages go too. Benjamin F. Smith: Hope to see you soon Josh! Sasha Turk: Please return the hikers to their country. They are innocent. wanlyn Jeanette Parker Anonymous Andrea Newman Josi Brito Paul Ross ikie light Anonymous Katie Roger Moulton Dean Ken Haines: I guess Iran just doesn't want any part of working with the world or ever care about tourism. All they accomplish is further isolation and considered a backward, depressive country with a despotic regime. Jill Dahir Anonymous Nancy Herritt: free the hikers ........Iran probably doesn't even suspect them ..just trying to be hard to get along with as usual Anonymous Mark Allder Steven: God speed. Joseph W. Neely Reynolds: God is Love! carole nosworthy trisha donovan Renee Weaver Sally Izzo Michael J. Hooper: Show the world your capable of compassion. FREE the detained!!! Nancy: Please free Shane and Josh Anthony Polston: Please free these people. Anonymous Cassandra Scalzi: Please let them come home to their families. Kaitlyn Parsons Mary Shuert: These young men deserve their freedom. In the name of all that is just and right, please send them home to their families! Brett Blake Kelly R. Marsh Susan Johnson Larry Upton: Free the hikers and improve relationships between our countries.It's the right thing to do. marie francois Roy Weinacht Dan & Cindy Toney: We are 100% in support of the hikers being freed since they have done no wrong. Anonymous: God Bless you. Our prayers are with you. Anonymous Anonymous Joseph Janulewicz: God Bless these Americans and hope they get home soon. James Fisk: Free these men, and show the world that there is a spark of humanity left in Iran. David Peters William D. McClintock Chuck Hampton Anonymous: We are praying for Shane and Josh, and so relieved that Sarah is home for this Thanksgiving. We will not forget until the boys are home with their families!! Penny barry Marie Heath Anne Aldrich: Please free Shane and Josh. Ruth Grundmeier Anonymous: Come on and be humane............for the holidays if for no other reason! Anonymous Anonymous Ivette Pozek Anonymous: Please have compassion and release Josh and Shane to their loving families. Christine Joanne Demangus: Free these innocent people now Vincent Ettore Gorana Jadresko-Kelley: I'm snding positive thoughts to Josh and Shane and I'm hoping they will be released and return home to their loved ones..... Barbra Fox: Holding you all in our prayers and believing that God will confuse the enemy and cause them to defeat themselves and free ALL three. Mark E Hesse Shannon Owens: god bless come home safely Pamela W Oberfeld Josh Winkler: How unfortunate it is when governments use civilians as pawns in their games of politics. Prayers go out to Josh and Shane! Anonymous: Please have compassion during this Holiday season and release these two young men...they commited no crime. Thank you for the release of Sarah M. Collier: Please free them and let them return to the USA... Lindsey Smith Louisa Calcaterra: Sarah, I saw you and Josh's brother on tv today. We are praying, honey. Robert B. Maloney ll: Release them. There is no political advantage in keeping them any longer. Elsie Johnson Anonymous Anonymous: Our thoughts and prayers are with you Anonymous: Saw your story on Fox and felt compelled to sign. Don Gruendler: Please free the Americans. The Families await their save return.They have been in your Country way too long. Anonymous: Please!in the name of God let these young people go home! Monica Byington: Safe return God Bless my prayers are with you Hellmut Scheel: Please release Shane and Josh so they can again be with their families. Danielle Lytwyn: Send these guys home to their families for Christmas please! This is glaringly obvious to everyone that they are innocent! Peyton Turner: I don't understand why our gov't. can let this continue. Surely the most powerful country in the world can do something to bring these kids home. Tiffany Gordon: God will bring them home soon. Stay faithful in the eyes of the Lord and He will grant you your prayers~ God bless your family, and things will get better soon!!! :) rosaria spinelli Suzanne Beecher: Please release Shane and Josh. They are innocent hikers that mean to harm. Russ Millard Anonymous Sheila Osburn: Free the hikers today! Have compassion, do the right thing, FREE THEM! THANK YOU! Anonymous Anonymous: Please show mercy for these young people they need to be home with their families. No crime has been proven Michael and Leslie Brunolli: Offering prayers daily for their release. Valerie Allen: We keep you all in prayer. Keep the faith and know that God is with you. Mark Hanlin Daisy Cisneros: I will continue to pray Shane and Josh return home safely and soon! Michelle Jones Anonymous: These two young men should be released ASAP. They have been held for no reason and should be returned to their families. Dianne Don Murray: The continued mistreat of these innocuous hikers reflects poorly on the leadership of Iran. There is nothing to be gained by continuing this facade. It's time to admit error and end this travesty of justice. TODD BOWDER: YOUR IN MY PRAYERS paul: GOD bless America Leo Puig: Free the hikers! Cindy Clark James R. McCrory Sally E. Wrught: These are young people with no political agenda. Please free them. Ken McDaniel: you all know they are not spies. send them home. Anonymous: Please release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal they have been held long enough. May the dear Lord be with each of you and keep you strong. I pray the dear Lord also has his arms around you and your family and friends, thru Jesus Christ I ask this. Benny Vines: Continuing to hold these people hostage does not demonstrate strength on the part of the Iranian government. It only demonstrates weakness, and stains the reputation of the Iranian people. brenda ingram: These young men should be released immediately. My thoughts and prayers are with them and their families. Anonymous: PLEASE ALLOW sHANE AND jOSH TO COME HOME TO THEIR LOVED ONES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE Amy Newman Larry Brush: If these young people did stray into your country, it was not with intent. I hope you will display compassion and release them back to their families and loved ones. Anonymous mitzi appleby: The families of these prisoners need their loved ones home, please free the hikers Arthur Suggs: Show some compassion please!!! John Foro: Myself and our church will be praying also since with God anything is possible. John Brian Moran Lee Fisher: May the compassion of the human soul prevail of which no nationality, religious or political agenda can undermine. And may the mercy of God show the path of good will and human nature and bring Shane and Josh home. Anonymous: Please take the right action and FREE these innocent men. Do not make them pay for political struggles of which they are not involved or responsible. Anonymous: Their was not a valid reason to detain in the first place, and the Iran government knows this. The longer they detain them the less credibility their government has. Nancy Eiger: Free the hikers now! Cris Holmes Chelsea holmes Joy Taylor: Please, send the innocent hikers home for the holidays. Joe Public: Let my people go!! S. A. Williams: The release of Shane and Josh will set the example in displaying compassion for incidents of this nature. James Crane Kevin Morton: Please free the American hikers, Josh and Shane. Governments have issues but these are just people. Please show compassion and send them home for the holidays. Thanks. Tara Medrano: God does NOT give you the right to hold these innocent people hostage, and God will hold you accountable for your actions...........RELEASE these INNOCENT people NOW! Ruth Berjawi Mary and Gary Myers: We just saw Sarah and Josh's brother on FOX & FRIENDS NEWS and wholeheartedly join the effort to free Shane and Josh as soon as possible. Many prayers and blessings being sent from us to all family members involved with both men. susan: please release Shane and Josh, please do not let the policies of our governments stand in the way of basic, decent humanity. thank you Kimberly Noyce Mike Kerkado Kimberly: their extended pre-trial detention is a violation of Iranian and international law. Their detention is arbitrary and inhumane. Enough said. Why should this continue? Let all three be with their families for the holidays. Pat beckmann K Szydlowski: The Iranian Government Is An Embarrassment Unto Itself. RELEASE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND STOP MAKING COMPLETE IDIOTS OF YOURSELVES. This Is Not The Way To Gain Respect And/Or Credibility In The Eyes Of The Rest Of The World !!! nick: May The LORD Bless,protect them and deliver them and ALL those like them,Christians,Troops from danger in JESUS Mighty Name amen Anonymous: Thank you for freeing Sarah and please do the same for Shane and Josh. This good will act will go far in improving good will between our countries. Anonymous: In the name of all that is holy, pleae free these innocent young people. Scott A. Smith: Please do the right, show some compassion and release Josh and Shane immediately. Holding them needlessly is only creating more tension and animosity. Anonymous: Please release all three hikers unharmed & please do so very quickly. Connie Ferreira Pat: Please stop playing political games with innocent young people who did no wrong. America would not do this to Iranians, why are you doing it????? The world is watching to see if you can be humane or if you are just all talk. Let these boys come home to their families. David Nutt: they were kiddnapped period and they were not in Iran. Kevin L Leppla: Let my people go! Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Herman Alexander Anonymous John C. Anderson: Please show your compassion by releasing these young innocent travelers.. Anonymous: Free these innocent people now! Jack Chapoton: It's time for the president to stand up for these young people. Anonymous Anonymous: Please show the compassion and good will of Iran by releasing these remaining two US citizens, Shane and Josh, back to their families and homes. Rebecca Randolph: I cannot believe that this situation has not been resolved yet...please keep in mind as we approach another holiday season that time apart is one thing that can never be given back to loved ones. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Zachary Marks: Free the Hikers ! Daniel DiFabio Sharon Corless: Please show compassion for Shane and Josh and release them so they may be with family and friends for the holidats. Anonymous Anonymous: In the interest of our entire world, please set them free, as you yourself are free. Do unto others, as you would have done unto you. Anonymous: Please free the Americans today! Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous: Please free these hikers. There innocence is unquestionable at this point and to continue to detain them is nothing more than the Iranian Government portraying their ignorance to the world. Your lack of compassion towards these 2 men only slanders the Iranian Government face and garners absolutely no respect from the rest of the world's population at all. FREE THE HIKERS!!! THEY ARE INNOCENT WITHOUT QUESTION!!! Sandra Frser Anonymous Gloria Blier: It's a nice time of year to show compassion, and would resonate loudly to a lot of people. ron dodge: I have been watching your struggle and pray that your brother and friend will be released soon. Patricia McCulla Denise Murray Anonymous Loretta Russell Anonymous Anonymous: May God bless you all! Anonymous Anonymous: Lord bless them! McKissicks+Mitchells 10 total: It is sad that we have no better way to get our citizens out of a foreign cou Michael Lawson Shaun T Cavett Anonymous: God's blessings. We are praying for you all!! Juliana Fanning: Free Josh and Shane. Anonymous: Please free these young people so they may get on with their lives. Anonymous: Josh & Shane have done nothing harmful or threatening to the country of Iran just as well as Sarah and they need to be released not just because its the humanitarian thing to do but because they have families and careers they need to get back too.Keeping Josh & Shane detained for political gain is politically wrong when they have done nothing to hurt Iran.Now the holidays are here the best gift you can give to Sarah & Families is the release of Josh & Shane.I urge everyone to continue to pray everyday for the release and safe return of Josh & Shane and pray for Sarah as well as Josh & Shanes Family that they will have the strength to get through another holiday season without them if they are not released.Keep coming on here signing the petition and posting this link of facebook with all your friends.Thanks! Victoria Morales Anonymous: I don't beleve for a moment that any of the three hikers are "SPIES". They are being used as "PAWNS". And I am ofended that our "Goverment" has done nearly nothing for 3 of our citzins. Venus Naylor: Please release these men Michelle Nadeau Damon and Shirley Besinsky Anonymous Anonymous: their return is long over due, please return are people immediately, they have done nothing to deserve this treatment. Danilo Delgado Nicole Koklas Anonymous: Please free these two innocent men! Deborah Carroll: Please let Shane and Josh join their families and be free; they've done no wrong. They have suffered for too long now. Joseph E. Rau: Iran, why are you detaining two innocent hikers? By using Josh and Shane as pawns in some game of international politics, all you are achieving is the generation of hate, animosity, and malice. Some miscalculation of where the border was by either side is not worth the amount of pain you are inflicting on the friends and families of Josh and Shane. You are doing no service to Iran's interests by continuing with your shameful conduct. Dennis Amaturo: 479 Days for a innocuous mistake? Please free them now. Collin Blanchard: Praying for you all. Bob Greig: The Iranian govt. has made their point. No further purpose will be served by the continued detention of these two Americans. Gretchen Walter Anonymous: I hope they are freed soon. This has gone on for too long. Gary DeVeau: May Father God protect & keep Shane & Josh safe during their imprisonment in Iran and speed their release. May He instill compassion within the hearts of their captors and move upon them to release Shane & Josh NOW! We also lift up before God all of the people of Iran, that they would all soon live in a country that is free and fights to protect everyone’s basic human rights. We bring these petitions before the throne of God’s Grace by the authority of Christ or Lord. Amen! Becky Terry Jan Westerman: Prayers go out to all families for a speedy release. I ask the Islamic Republic of Iran to have an open heart and mind and to truly seek justice and truth for these young men. Anonymous: thoughts and prayers go out to you from Orlando, FL P. J. Murphy Anonymous Ann E: thoughts & prayers for you Brittany Ford Anonymous Molly Chamblee: and create an educational program to help other hikers learn how to stay clear of danger, but enjoy our world. Richard Scott Blevins: Please release them. Demonstrate Islam can show mercy. JOHNNY SALERNO Anonymous: Please realize and recognize that Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal were only going hiking for recreational purposes, and have nothing to do with spying. They entered your country accidentally, so we ask you to act humanely in accordance with reason and mercy to drop all charges and release Shane and Josh immediately. Thank you. Kurt Nielsen Julie McWilliams: There is no excuse for this to continue. Let them come home! Anonymous: My prayers are with you all. Carolynn Udell: Please bring them home to their families soon!! Bob Carlisle Marjorie Spence: I pray that Iran will put politics and ego's aside to release U.S. citizens that have done nothing wrong...This keeps happening and I would pray that Americans would learn and stay CLEAR of even being close to Iran borders... PLEASE RELEASE OUR KIDS.......THANK YOU tom thompson: Please in the name God let them be free Anonymous Charles Williamson: Please, set them free! Matthew Jacobs Liz Ferlenda: May God have mercy on these good people. Anonymous marie kirkorian: I don't understand why, since the hickers were NOT on Iranian soil in the first place, why they're being held. God bless you and continue to give you strength. God bless Shane and Josh. God bless the people of Iran and open their eyes, hearts and minds to this injustice. Anonymous Amanda L Smith: I pray that Shane and Josh (and Sarah) remain strong...and that the Iranian government realizes they are not accomplishing anything in their further detainment. Mike Barbieri: Come back home! Terry McLeod: Do the right thing and release and dismiss charges immediately! Thomas Hickey Anonymous: This extended pre-trial detention is a violation of Iranian and international law. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration need to drop the politics, and get these innocent kind souls out of that prison. Regardless of what needs to be done. Regardless of any political correctness. This is what the Special Forces are for. I would be willing to bet that there are soldiers out there that would be willing to break into this prison and get these people out. Shane, Sarah, and Josh are as kind as they come. Anyone can see this by taking 5 minutes to read their story and see how compassionate they all are about culture, humanity, and the environment. It seems to me that the Iranian boarders are vague for a reason. The government of Iran executes war crimes on a daily bases, and needs to be wiped off the face of the beautiful world that Shane and Josh admire. It is very clear that the Iranian government arrest Americans to appear strong both politically and militarily. The United States could turn this country around if they stayed in the war and eliminated the Taliban. If the Middle Eastern civil wars can not stop, regardless of US presence, the US needs to back out, but make it very clear that if the United States or its allies are attacked in any way, there will be nuclear consequences. It is a harsh world, that unfortunately sometimes calls for harsh self defense. The saddest part of this is that one way or another, someone in the middle east has to die to protect the people in the rest of the world. World peace is a dream of mine, but I also believe that war is in the human DNA, and always has been throughout history. Hopefully people like Shane, Sarah, and Josh will change that. I can tell that they are trying with compassion and view humanity in a beautiful way. I have traveled all over the world, but the closest I have come to Iran or the rest of the corrupt middle eastern countries is Egypt, and I admire people like Shane, Sarah, and Josh that are not afraid to go there. In Egypt at the Four Seasons hotel, there were permanent mettle detectors and bomb dogs. The hotel was surrounded by a gate with armed soldiers. Every car, bag, purse, person, and employee was checked before entering the hotel. If this type of security is necessary at a 5 star hotel, I can't imagine how dangerous parts of that city are. I brought up Egypt to make this point: When the tower bells go off, and can be heard anywhere in the city, and every Muslim hits the ground and prays, I can't help but think that the Muslim religion is a giant brain washing mechanism to control the population. I met a man there that shares my belief in science and is not religious. He told me that he feared for his life every day when he chose to stand up when the bells rang. As an American I stood proud with him. I am aware that a lot of this is off subject, but I make these points to encourage people to think about how small our planet is in the grand scheme of things. We are one planet, in one dimension, in one galaxy, one universe. It would be great if one day humanity could come together as one. Evolution can change our desire to fight if we all stick together throughout several generations. One day, when the sun burns out, or a giant meteor hits our planet again, I hope humanity is joined as one. All of my points describe my personal belief that life is too short and too precious to spend it fighting someone who's life is equally as precious as yours. I am proud that I can exercise my freedom of speech and say LET THEM BE FREE. LET THEM LIVE THEIR LIFE. LET THEM OUT SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BE AN EXAMPLE FOR US ALL. James Andrews ivana: free them!!!!! Tanner Stewart Anonymous Lois Granger: Show some humanity, free the boys. Jagadees.S Anonymous Frances Cable: Shane, Sarah and Josh have spent more than enough time in custody for their accidental, if any crossing into Iran. Please have compassion, the world is watching. Sara Crawford: I pray that these Americans are returned to their families and to the services they have been providing the world. Anonymous Brad Keith Moore: it is ridiculous for iran to hold hikers for cryin out loud, where is the love. Bob Sergeant Marjory Kay Webb: Please free Josh and Shane. They know they have done nothing, yet they are made to suffer, and for what purpose? Have compassion on these two fellow human beings, Please. Gerald Schair Robert Nelson: Pamela, you said it right. Stop the political games and free them already!! Please stay strong, your day to be free will come. Kristine Nybø Anonymous: Keep the faith, stay strong, the LORD GOD is with you all. Brandon Edwards: Our Liberty must have resolve to Unite, to Protect, and to Love...! And, you can't do that by doing nothing or by doing the wrong thing, only by boldly working to Free mankind of Oppression! In my grasp of humanity this is a continual need for Freedom to prevail…, As the 3rd U.S. President said, “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Anonymous Elizabeth Rusbuldt: They have done nothing, send them home!!! Malcolm Pellettier: All three are innocent: please free all three. Anita Coolidge: In reality, what harm could they have done? I think everyone gets the message of how unfair and reactive the government of Iran is. Aren't there more important things for the government of Iran to focus attention on? These gentle souls meant no harm, and it is evident they do not even want to backlash. Iran has gone too far with this. Iran: Please be fair. Be gentle. Be wise. It's gotten the world's attention, but the negative responses will not be good for anyone. Your country is safe. So is ours. They deserve to be released back to their homes. Why are you so mean? Not a good thing. And certainly not a necessary thing to keep them there in order for your country to be safe. Please release them now. Joan Anonymous: Please send these two young men home to their families and loved ones soon. Thank You. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Jeanette Hopkins Ryan Brock Anonymous Anonymous Glenn & Marcia Hoffman: We respectfully plead with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shawn Bauer and Josh Fattal and allow them to return to their families in the United States. People all over the world will be impressed by your actions to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. Please do the honorable and ethical action and release Shawn Bauer and Josh Fattal as soon as possible. Thank you. Katie Brock Eric Drissell David Reynolds aj devine: free the hikers. it'll make you feel much better. Scotland Squire: Free these men now - not later. This political game has gone on too long. Get these men back to their families so they can leave this nightmare and start living their life. Christine: Please return them safe and sound to their families and show the world your compassion. Barbara Neuwelt paul eller: show some humanity.... Jaymie Bedel: Thoughts and prayers are with you all. Judith Galler Sarah Miles: Please free these innocent young men. Our world needs more people like them in it. Iran is losing out by inprisoning these wonderful human beings. 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Anonymous Abby Penglase Sarah Nancie McKinnon Rupesh Jaju: I request Iranian president to release innocent citizens, capturing and abusing innocent citizans because of their nationality, race, color or religion is an act of terrorism. Please keep politics aside and release them immediately. CB: Please let these Americans come home to their families! Anonymous Jason Castellani Anonymous Carolyn Arnold Melissa & Mike Strohfus: Your and in our thoughts and prayers and we hope for your release and safe arrival back at home. Domenica Rapisarda Cathy Jones Amy Tresidder horace tabone: Freedom for all! Lilian C Amanda McGrath Renee dunne: Melbourne, Australia Shane Craigen: Free the Innocent. Peace for all. Anonymous: we are hoping you will release the boys as they are not criminals and let them home to their families thank you Anonymous: FREE THEM!!! lisa whittle: Please allow the safe return of these 2 men home, they have committed no crime. Megan Anonymous: Josh and Shane are innocent. They are being used as political pawns. Please release them. Natalie: Just saw oprah interview with Sarah on television (I'm from Sydney, Australia). Show compassion Iran and release these innocent men. Hang in there guys, I hope that you'll be released Anonymous: My thoughts are with you and hope for your freedom very soon. Anonymous: Please free these people Anonymous: FREE THE HIKERS !!! Brydie Williams: These men deserve to be back home with thier families! These men are not criminals, Free All Three Anonymous: Please free the remaining prisoners. It was an honest mistake that they were in Iran. TAMMY ABBOTT: FREE the innocent human lives whom have done no harm to anyone or no crime. This is inhumane and deserves to be corrected immediately without fail. Anonymous: My thoughts and prayers are with the detainees and their family's! I'd never heard about this till the OPRAH show, shown on australian television 30th november 2010!!!! Please free these innocent human beings <3 Anonymous: May God be with you Marie Sehgal: I am sending all my support, love and hope. I pray for your families, and hope for the release of shane & Josh.xx Liesl Fitzpatrick Leesa Jones: Please free Shane and Josh. samantha jane: Unlawful detainment is a terrible crime and it is crazy that the Iranian government is getting away with it! On behalf of Australia, I would like to say, Free Shane & Josh! Bring these men home to America so they can live their lives with the peopl they love! Louisa Zambelli Carmen White Anonymous Martina Bosca Linda Sandra Watson: Love and support for Shane and Josh from Sydney Australia. xx Anonymous: From as far away from Iran as you can get (Australia) I am sending a plea to have these men set free. ALL THREE FREE. Anonymous Lauren Anonymous: I am one of the many Australians who join the cause to free the two remaining detained hikers, please free these innocent men Angelique Jamieson, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA: Thinking of Shane, Josh and their families hope they are released soon Megan Verwey Ailsa K.: Let the boys go home for Christmas 2010! Felicity Cogan: Send these people home...they do not deserve to be in prison. Anonymous: Please, please, please free Shane and Josh and let them return to their families and home. Eleanor: I live in Australia- the whole world is watching to see Iran demonstrate good will, mercy and honor by releasing ordinary people such as Josh and Shane- your reputation in the world is made up of acts like this. Please free these men. Deanne King Rebecca Vangeli Trish Shaw: As a fellow traveller, who is at the mercy of foreign governments whenever exploring this wonderful world, my heart goes out to the three hikers and especially the 2 boys still in custody and their families. The Iran government are people, people with families, people with hearts. All people are capable of good deeds and are vulnerable against evil. I pray that all illegally detained persons around the world gain their liberty through compassion of those who wield the power. Anonymous Erin Brooks: Please set the boys free. Carolyn Johnston Anonymous Louise Button: Just saw the show on Oprah In Australia And hope your guys are released very soon! Alice: Saw our story on Oprah here in Australia. We all support you. May Justice Pervail. Jessica Armstrong: We in Australia support the release of these 2 innocent American men. Carley Haynes: We share the hope that Shane and Josh be allowed to have freedom and be released back to their families. Our hearts also go out to Sarah who is waiting for their release to be completely free herself too. God speed. Anonymous Anonymous: Please free Josh and Shane. After seeing Sarah on the Oprah show, it really broke my heart. All three need to be together again- free. Jessie Wilkie: My pairs go out to all involved from here in Australia. Jolanda Witvoet Anonymous: I first heard about this story on the 30 Novemeber edition of Oprah screened in Australia. I was so upset to hear that this troubling ordeal has been going on for such a long time with no reasoning or standpoint for the government to continue such an imprisonment of these "clearly" innocent civilians. I wish all the hope i can for the families of Shane and Josh, and hope that all of the efforts of the American Government and other official bodies ensure that the imprisonment is ceased as soon as possible. It would be such a shame to see this continuing to be another unjustified and indefinite imprisonment. My thoughts are with you all. Anonymous: free them Tanya Muldoon Chay Gould: Free the Josh and Shane PLEASE!!!!!!!! Anonymous: Please free these innocent people and send them home to be with their families Amy Anonymous: I'm Australian and saw this story on The ABC news in 2009- again recently on Oprah. I have urged all my friends to sign the petition and on the grounds of just how lucky we are. I hope shane and Josh are released soon. Helen Sutherland Anonymous Anonymous Tracey Bujora: Please correct this terrible injustice and return these innocent men to their families. Anonymous Anonymous Hannah Naka: The situation that has occurred is rather injustice and needs to be put right. This has gone for too long, and desperately needs to be put to an end! Katrina Macmillan: All things are possible to those that believe. Michelle Wilson: please free Josh & Shane so they can return to their families. xx reagan de-giorgi: do the right thing free these young people theve done nothing wrong and you as people are bringing bad attention to your country FREE THESE KIDS Lisa Evett Robyn Gough: Please free Shane and Josh! Rhyanna Bryan Lisa Anonymous: Please free these men. Jeff Anonymous Anonymous: send these boys home to their families. Erica Naka: Let justice prevail where there is none. Karina Jemma Mallett Anonymous: From Australia, I pray for the release of Josh and Shane. I pray that Iran will listen to our pleas and show compassion. All my love to Josh and Shane and their family and friends. Ben Winter: another aussie here surpporting the release of SHANE an JOSH... Deb Jones: Thanks to Oprah for making us aware of these situations. I will stand with the thousands of others to help free Shane and Josh. Power to you Sarah, continue the fight. Queensland Australia. Anonymous: Please free these innocent travelers who simply wanted to appreciate the wonderful place of North Iraq. Anonymous: SET THEM FREE Anonymous: The interview with the Iranian President and his statement re:"The U.S has 8 Iranian prisoners" in the same conversation (seen on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' to me is sickening. Trading humans as if they are a bag of excrement. It's appalling and illustrates ignorance of gargantuan proportions and underdeveloped mental capacities for compassion and the human condition. belinda aldridge Lisa Wynne: Today's episode of Oprah shown in Australia touched me deeply. I am so relieved that Sarah has been released, but this injustice will not end until Shane and Josh are returned home to their loved ones. I send you all my strength. Anonymous: the operah show reinvorced the resolve to end this unjust detention/imprisonment..we implore the Iran people to have a say in this.. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous: Let the love of Jesus be released on these young men - Freedom !! Anonymous: Free all three! The detainment of these people is pointless and without grounds. Please show compassion and release them to the care of their families and friends. Madeleine Lucy Walton: US leaders need to do more for these men. The leaders of Iran have no solid reason for holding these men except a grudge against America for holding Irani citizens. These men deserve more from your Government. As an Australian, I have seen more support from the American people and Government thrown at American criminals detained overseas than these innocent prisoners. Libby Jones Anonymous: Oprah's show has done a huge favour to letting the rest of the world know about Josh & Shane. Please free them at once Iran! It gains you nothing to keep these men from their loved ones. More so Sarah still has not a bad word to say even after the injustice she has faced! Sending these men and their families much strength during a continuously difficult time. Mary Smith sara maniatis: what has happened to these three souls is truly a nightmare. they are good innocent people, free spirits caught out in the wrong place at the wrong moment in history. please be merciful and free these young men. stacey reid: please free these men they have been detained for to long let them come home to their families. Anonymous Karlie Ruth James Liah Stoianis Anonymous: Our thoughts and prayers are with you both Kelly Costa Joanne Eaton: I just saw Sarah on the Oprah show, I live in Perth Western Australia and I truly hope the boys get home really soon. lisa ruddy: how truly fantastic you let sarah go, now please find it in your heart to let shane and josh go... let these 3 get on with the rest of there lives... good luck to you all.. such a sad story.... lots and love and prayers sent to you all....xoxo Rhiannon Brianna Doncon: I just watched an interview on Oprah with Sarah Shourd. It reduced me to tears to know that these three innocent people have been imprisoned all this time and I never knew about it. What is going on in the world, what possesses the people in Iran to do something like this when it is quite clear that they have done nothing wrong and are merely innocent tourists. It breaks my heart to hear the Iranian President say things like he would consider releasing the two young men only if America released some or all of its Iranian detainees, who he claims are being held illegally. This is not the way to resolve conflicts, misunderstandings and disagreements, it is beyond imaginable that adults in authoritative positions of power could use innocennt human beings as political pawns. Please release Josh and Shane now, they have done nothing wrong and you know that, they have families and friends who just want them home, please think how your mother would feel if another country did this to you. Please have a heart and compassion. Renee Ariadne Macleod Amy Rorke: If only Iran could see this as an opportunity for improving already fractured international relations - not a political 'swap' of prisoners. There is just no PROOF of espionage. After all this time, a proven violation of Iranian and international law, This is just unbelievable. Enough is enough. Love and support to the families and all others involved from Australia. sharon Hughes: As the mother of two sons, I appeal to you, the government of Iran to free Shane and Josh. These two young men are productive citizens of the world, who have been committed to changing society for the better. We, as a society, need more people like them - not less. Please allow these two young men to come home in order that they can resume their lives and commitment to making the world a better place. Respectfully, Mrs. Sharon Hughes (Australia) shazza australia: please free all three Anonymous Rita Dembo: Free the innocent and don't keep them any longer out of spite. Only God can judge. Anonymous Lorna Trigwell: From all the way from Australia please free Shane and Josh R. Irving: Im in Australia and watched Oprah today and it made me cry. I really hope the boys are allowed to go home soon. The Iranians sound like they want to trade the Americans for their men and I wish it was done as easily as that. I will be praying for them, keep up the good work! Gina Casbarro Anonymous Kerrie Perkins Ali Smith: Josh & Shane our thoughts and prayers are with you. Anonymous: We in Australia support the release of these two men who have committed no crime. Please release them A Larkin Jan: Keep your courage up and remain strong. I'm praying for you all in Australia. Anonymous: I have just been watching Oprah with Sarah Shourd, her mother and the mothers of Shane and Josh. I think aftering hearing what Sarah had to say, with regard to being no signs or fences indicating a border, this is genuinely a mistake (or mistaken identity)please release Shane and Josh, can't release one and the not the others. They are to innocent of any crimes. Leah: All the way from Australia! Please free the hikers and send them home, so they can get on with their lives. Sarah Moon Andrew Duncan Erica Marlene Jensen: Please adhere to Iranian and international laws, and free these two young men. Casey Schell: I just saw Sarah on Oprah today (Australia) what a terrible story. I feel for you all. Please send these boys home! Rhona Bolger: We're hoping and praying for you all... May the good news your waiting for come quickly! Natalie Visser: I pray for the release of Josh and Shane. I Praise God for freedom Sarah now has back and I pray that by the grace of God that all involved in this situation stay strong to secure a positive outcome. My thoughts are with you. Sarah Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh. Rylie McLoughlin: I am from Melbourne Australia and yesterday saw on Oprah this story. Please free these two men. Their families hearts are breaking. My heart goes out to everyone that is hurting. I pray for these two men and their loved ones. Please send them home. Ruth Stein: My husband and I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah on Thanksgiving day. What an incredibly lovely lady! Kara Lawrence Rebecca Claudine Hawkins Amanda Doig Mellanie Pryor katy nunn Anonymous: " There is no Easy walk to Freedom Anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the Valley of the Shadow of Death again and again before we reach the Mountaintop of our Desires".(Nelson Mandela) STAND STRONG IN FAITH, HOPE, PATIENCE & PRAYERS. You're FREE in your MIND & THOUGHTS & YOUR PHYSICAL FREEDOM WILL HAPPEN. NEVER GIVE UP! THAT DAY IS COMING! KEEP BELIEVING IN IT, HOPING FOR IT & DREAMING OF IT, UNTIL IT MANIFESTS! AND IT WILL! I'M BELIEVING WITH YOU! AUSTRALIA! Natalie Asikainen Lia Rose: Please release Shane and Josh. The world is watching; you have an opportunity to show compassion and good will in a very difficult time. Please. Reyzen Aquino: freed the hickers Anonymous: They meant no harm. Please let them go. Seiji Carpenter Fern Hana Elizabeth: To the Iranian President: these are human beings not political tools for revenge. You know this is wrong - let them go home. Erin Snow Erin Bartlett: Sending support from Australia Ellie: Please show compassion to Josh and Shane like you showed to Sarah, and Free all Three!!! Rachele: I'm in Australia and have just seen the Oprah show with Sarah. What an amazing, strong and sincere young woman. These boys need to be home with their families for Christmas. Please send them home! Anonymous Joe Krishna Mithiran: Detaining these people on the basis that they are spies when all the evidence shows they are innocent does nothing to help Iran's international relations. Kay Cameron: Support from Australia. Jeannie Hartley: Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families. Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families. I am appealing to the highest officials in Iran who have it within your power to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal to their families as soon as possible. In my heart I know you are Good people with honest hearts and that your wisdom and fairness will lead you to make the decision of freeing them. I hold on to this vision of your freeing these men that are so deeply missed and loved by their families who await their homecoming night and day. I want to thank you in advance for your great act of making it possible for these men to be back home with their loved ones where they belong. It is because of great souls doing wonderful things in this world that creates a higher better life for everyone on this planet. Thank you again for the decision of compassion I feel in my heart you are about to make. We are all people with the same desire for the best of all desires that our loved ones be in the arms of though who treasure them. I remain with highest regard and in all sincerity, hold on to this vision of Josh and Shanes return. Thank you from the depths of my being,Jeannie Hartley Anonymous: i fully agree that your freinds should be freed. there is no HONORABLE reason why they should be still confined. IRAN is JUST BEING STUBBORN!! if they were inerested in HONOR AND PEACE like MR. OBAMA IS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE TIME the HE needs to go there and BRING THEM HOME!!! LAURYN TAPP Katie Ingham Anonymous Pat Linskey Anonymous Cathy Wilson Anonymous: My heart goes out to these innocent men. Karleen Kruger: If they entered our country we wouldn't put their people in prison for crossing state lines!! This is ridiculous that they have been detained this long. Thaddeus Whithed marcin Will K: Send them home Jordan Fishman camille robles Nancy A. Borden: Josh & Shane have been prisoners in Iran long enough for a crime they did not commit. I support the release of the final 2 hikers immediately & not a day longer. God Bless All 3 of them. Anonymous James Keller Christopher H. Johnson: Holding American citizens for crimes that they did not committ on territory not within the jurisdiction of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not gain you any bargaining power with the United States of America or the other member states of the United Nations. Holding them for internal political motives within the Islamic Republic of Iran is morrally repulsive to People of the Book. As a Person of the Book, I appeal to your sense of holy righteousness and the tradition of tolerance in Islam. With all appropriate and due respect for the positions which God has given you, Christopher H. Johnson Kay Siglowski Anonymous: Please free these innocent American people, they have done NOTHING WRONG! Rachel Cowen: stop the torture of the innocent hikers Shane MacRhodes: Free them. The time is now. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Coleen Koch Robin Kilbury: Please release Shane and Josh as a humanitarian act. We will all be grateful. Patrick Furtado: Please send them home! Diane Finn Nils Schongalla: Release Josh and Shane from this senseless imprisonment!!! It is absurd that they and their families must continue to endure this sadness. Much Love and Peace and Strength to them and the ones who wait for their return. Shivkumar Pandey: Humanity has no barriers and boundaries,please free them! Molly Nakahara: Please allow our friends to come home. Thank you. Erica LeMay Anonymous: As an Iranian-American, I am ashamed of what the so-called government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has done to these individuals and many other innocent victims who are being oppressed. Free them and allow them to come home to their family & friends. Anonymous: keep beleiveing it will happen, we are thinking of you guys down under AUSTRALIA! I will never understand why people cant just live life happyly, just remember when you close your eyes and sleep drift back in time to a beautiful time and before you know it, it will happen, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH. GRY BRUDVIK Terrie Sarah Pothast Camilla Murray: We are sending all our support! Carmita Silva Vanessa LeMay Kathryn Sedman: Shane, Sarah and Josh are innocent of any crime and their extended pre-trial detention is a violation of Iranian and international law. Release them NOW!!!!! Giomar Silva ANONYMOUS Carleyrae Weber: I had the great pleasure of meeting Josh in Italy just before his trip to Iraq. He is a great person, and most importantly, he is innocent of any crime. I pray that him and Shane come home safely. Anonymous: Free Shane Bauer & Josh Fattal!!!, everything arguments that reasoned to kidnapped and detained them is barbaric, so what different with Guantanamo issues?, is Iran more civilized than US?...? Free Shane Bauer & Josh Fattal!!! Shannon Gad: My prayers are with you all! Anonymous: Please free the hikers. To punish innocence is a sin. Lavada Miller: Praying for everyone, and sending good thoughts and hope to Shane and Josh. Sandy Daugherty: Please release these young men. They have done nothing wrong. It is not right to live by the rule "guilty until proven innocent". I understand that this is what Guantanamo Bay is all about but it isn't right either. It is not fair that these three innocents were detained and it is wonderful that one has been freed but all must understand that she is not free until her friend and fiance are free with her. It is a shame that our govt. has made such a political game that it affects the innocent this way. I am in no form or fashion in favor in locking anyone up with no cause or proof to do so. Anonymous Anonymous Rachel Mills Jamie Vlahakis Diane Penza Allison Lee Catherine Van Gorder Denise Pecoraro: My heart goes out to the three of them..I will say a prayer everyday for a safe return home. I cannot even fathom why there is so much cruelty in our world. God Bless Shane, Sarah and Josh. Whitnee Goode: Let them go! This is not right. Rey: Is U.S Stepping up to help? Iran cant just make an assumption that these hikers are spies... common U.S help out. Trisha Knapp Jillian Fitzgerald Tamara Lewis Julia H. Janelle Thomas: Please free these young men and send them home to their families. Anonymous Heather melissa Parson Nicholas Whitney: The world may be propelled forward by great ideas. It may be changed by great people. It is certainly scarred by great wars. This is a chance for greatness. Free these men. Be great. Amber Smith Barrie Moore Perley MacIntosh Mary Jane Neumann Heinz Leitner: Please send them home! Peter Rozek Anonymous Tara Trudell Anamaria Armijo Jennifer Frei Brad Kaellner Anonymous Lisa Freathy Joanna Cotler Jan van Steijn: To: The President of The Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad. Please, show compassion in this unfortunate case and release Josh and Shane as soon as possible. Justienne Galbraith Janet Rude Merideth Frey Mark D: support from Los Angeles... Anonymous kristina yates Anonymous Emily Glenda Wolverton Roberto Montesinos: Please find it in your heart to release these people who have committed no crime against you other than trying to help people. Leah: Please free these innocent people! Carol River: Please release these two innocent men. Alana Di Labio Sandra Moores Jill Richards Anonymous Nathalie P.N.: Please,free all three! erolluttemam D Gibson Anonymous: There is no excuse for your actions, Iran. Release these innocent Americans and prove you are a country that can live in peace with the rest of the world. eileen f. scalli: free the american hikers josh and shane Anonymous Anonymous: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei and President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad and Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I wish to express my gratitude for your decision to release Miss Sarah Shourd. I see it as a positive action. It is with a great sense of humbleness that I send this request to you and your country. Please reconsider the imprisonment of Mr. Shane Bauer and Mr. Josh Fattal. Their trek with Miss Sarah Shourd lead them into unfamiliar territory. Please release them so that they may return to their concerned family and loved ones. Respectfully for Your Consideration, A. Hale آیت الله علی حسینی خامنه ای ، و رئیس جمهور محمود احمدی نژاد و سران دولت و اعضای کابینه از جمهوری اسلامی ایران ، ای کاش به قدردانی من برای تصمیم خود را برای آزادی خانم سارا شورد. من آن را به عنوان یک اقدام مثبت است. این کشور بزرگ با احساس خشوع ارسال این درخواست که من برای شما و شما. لطفا تجدید نظر حبس آقای شین بوئر و آقای جاش فتال. بازحمت حرکت کردن آنها با خانم سارا شورد آنها منجر به قلمرو نا آشنا. لطفا آنها را رها کنید به طوری که آنها ممکن است آنهایی که نگران بازگشت خود را به خانواده و دوست داشتنی. با احترام برای ملاحظه شما ، هیل Helen Hedberg Anonymous Mohamad Azadani: Please release the hikers. They just love Nature! That's all. No politics involved! Katie Aiello SHI CHAO: the fact is so amazing for me, those men had been used as a tool to fight against enemies countries. it is really a pity for human being, free them ,please. 希望他们能够早日回家！ Anonymous Jennifer Richardson Anonymous Aaron Simmon Shannon B Bailey Dolin Rodolfo Martinez: Please free these individuals. They clearly do not represent the US government. Connie Carichner: Please send Josh and Shane home. Anonymous: Please allow these poor people to go. While they should not have entered Iran illegally, what good is it doing you to keep two innocent Americans in your captivity? Think wisely and justly in your decision to free these two men. Anonymous: Please let them go. Hitesh: Please do the right thing. RAJENDRA MALLIWAL: Iran has had all the time to prove the charges - they haven't even tried to justify the arrests. Shocking case of human rights abuse. This should end NOW Anonymous Linda Curtis: Thank-you for releasing Sarah. Now please release Josh and Shane for they do not deserve this detention!!! Brad Corob Pamela Anonymous olivia stewart The Mooney Family Karolyn Hughes Mandy Exly: There are so many people in this country I would like to see in prison. Josh and Shane are not on that list. They do NOT deserve this. Release them now! Stop waiting. Show the world you can behave like an adult - not a child. Anonymous: Please get these boys home for Christmas. They have done nothing to deserve this treatment. Eric Maurer: Please do the right thing. Free Shane and Josh!! Katera Corob Anonymous: Pick on a kid your own size (USA) Iran, let these guys go. Ingrid Evjen-Elias: Shane, Sarah and Josh are exemplary human beings, models to us all. Please release these peaceful and compassionate spirits so they can continue to do their important work in the world. My heart is with all three of them. Anonymous: You are all in my prayers. I pray that you find mercy in your hearts and allow Josh and Shane to return home to their families. And I pray that Josh and Shane stay strong and never forget that we will not stop fighting for them until all three are free. Angela W. Charity McCollum: We ask you to release these gentlemen who respect you and your country. Please set them free... Becca Perry Lindsey Turner: How is it our country will go to war over oil, but will do nothing to save it's own people. Free Shane and Josh. May God be with both of you. DOROTHYJAMES Annie McGhee David Lamb Anonymous christina Murray Nora Finnerty: Please, what you are doing is so painful to innocent people. This is an unfair treatment of people who have done nothing wrong. Let them go, you are only hurting your country and your countries image by detaining these people, not just the hikers...but all innocent people. Sarah Jane Thomas F Qualey,MD: these hikers' continued detention is an outrage! Anonymous: I condemn the wrong action Anonymous Mark C. Whited Peter Ekblad: Justice and a Nation with good will is setting the hikers free. In Jesus Name I declare freedom for these men and Angels to protect them. Helen Johnson Pedro Costa: I am tottaly solidary with Sarah and i hope that the Iranian Justice acts fast in order to get Shane and Josh back to their loved ones. Anonymous Joseph Svirbely zouaoui soumaia: I am myself a free lance and dot understand how is it possible than people like us who are committed to give their time and efforts to make our politicians succeed are rewarded this way, my thoughts are with you, may God bless Regards, SZ Anonymous: I can only fantasize as to what this captive experience is, a fantasy because the reality must be unimaginably horrible in comparison. Gary Texeira Rosie Warren Dominika Dumin Jameylyn Warren Christine Beckers: Courage my friends ! Angela Gunn Mindyanne Berman Shirey Tawnie DeMeuse: My heart goes out to the victims and their families and I hope for a speedy return of all three to their homes and their loved ones. There is enough pain in the world, and there are more than enough people who cause harm. There is no need for this extra infliction on innocent individuals. Ben Clark Anonymous Anonymous: Release them please, this is not the way to peace. Anonymous: Shane and Josh did nothing wrong. Release them immediately! Melissa Maxwell Nicky Robinson Annette Clennell: We live in New Zealand and live in a multicultural society. We live in a country with no discrimination to race, religion, sexual preference, gender and freedom of speech and liberty. We tolerate all beliefs, yet no one can understand the justification or any reasoning as to why these people are being detained when they are only guilty of being innocent peace loving human beings with no other purpose than to innocently see other countries and broaden their own minds and open them up to other people and cultures who innocently now find themselves detained. Urgent ACTION is needed NOW! FREE THESE PEOPLE NOW! Krystal Barrett Fleur Catran Anonymous: Thank you for releasing Sarah. In the name of all that is good, please release the remaining two young American hikers. Our humanity is the same no matter where we are born. The love of family is our common denominator. Ella Heinrich Anonymous Anonymous Bianca Harris Ben Lin: My email address is blin90.info@yahoo.com. Send feedback. Elizabeth Creamer: Please let these wonderful young men go,they do not deserve to be imprisoned. Alicia Goldsmith: FREE ALL THREE Jackie Berger: Please free Shane and Josh. They are innocent of any crime they have been accused of. Their detainment is a boulder in the path of peace. Show them love and compassion by setting them free. Keith Lovett Teresa Huguet-Termes Hanna Wattendorff Anonymous Rochelle Frost olivia Jessica Veloso: Thank you for releasing Sarah. Shane and Josh are innocent and it is not right to detain them any further. Please release them. elizabeth j robinson Anonymous pooya.t: Im from iran ..................... Anonymous June Mitzel: Thank you for releasing Sarah. Please complete the act of compassion by releasing the two remaining hikers, Josh & Shane, which will only raise the world's esteem of Iran. Anonymous: From Canada I respectfully request that you release Shane and Josh.These two young men have been imprisoned for too long now. Please let them go to be with their families and loved ones. My prayers go out to all involved. Gods Peace!!! Darsea Finley Christine: Please send Josh and Shane home to their loved ones. My thoughts are with you three. Continue to be strong, a lot of people care and wish you well. Sarah, I was touched by your song and video - it is beautiful and very moving! Everything you are doing for Josh and Shane is so special. Anonymous: i respectively ask that you release these 2 young men and rejoin them with their families. please show compassion for these 2 young and let them come home to their loved ones immediately. with sincere thanks. Anonymous: May the love of God, friends, and family surround the hikers and their families as they push through this situation. Don't stop pushing and believing. Jennifer N Beasley Mary Dubon: Please release Shane and Josh to their mothers. Thank you. Debbie Branda: This action is purely a mistake. They are using the three as political pawns! Cory: Please send Shane and Josh home. They are innocent Americans who enjoy leading adventurous lives and helping people. They've done nothing wrong. Julia Renchner-Kelly Anonymous: Please release these young men. As a mother I can't imagine what their mothers have had to endure and for what reason? Enough of the politics. Let them come home. They are not threats to anyone. They are gifts from God. Byron King: To the leaders of Iran and it's people, two wrongs do not make one right. I am a medically retired U.S. Marine, and a student of history. Unlike the propergander pushed against your country I know the real history. Please do not tarnish your great history as a peaceful nation by stooping to the level of your acussers. If no one else here is willing to admit I will. I know the real reason the U.S. wants the world to hate and fear you. They use your leaders comments about Israel as hatred for Israel, yet of all the countries that have attacked Israel you have not. If you were so hell bent on harming Isreal why did you not participate in the 6-day war? Again, I know the history of your county, and I beg you not to lowwer yourself to level of your accusers. Please release Shane & Josh ASAP, you now know the truth about them and they are no treat to your nation. I would speak out on your behalf to the world for the truth, just release the hikers. To my fellow Americans that may think I am some kind of trader to my country for speaking the truth! The real traders or those who do not hold our country accountable for doing wrong and using our great county to exploit others. WE THE PEOPLE, should not allow certain people to do their dirty work and hide behind the flag! I forcasted when we started this War on Terror and started going around the world arresting, kidnapping, and killing people under the cover of fighting terrorism, that Americans would become targets around the world! I ask you what is the difference between U.S. Rendition or Guantanamo where we have arrested and kidnapped people and held them for years without trial on suspicion alone!!! If you want to truly free Shane & Josh then speak out to Own Government about committing the same crime!!! I posted my name and E-mail and here is my personal Phone number (229)425-6360 for anyone who wants to challange me on the facts or my patriotism!!! May God have Mercy on our Arrogant & Ignorant Souls!!! May God touch the hearts of the Iranians and convince them to send Shane and Josh home for Christmas. Anonomous: Yes there are plenty of places these people could have gone hiking here in America yet I suspect these idealistic youths were searching for something else. Many young Americans are actually fed-up with what America is and has become. It's only natural to attempt to change things into something you feel is better. I believe these people were in the middle east just trying to learn and experience something about the people who live there, their customs and lifestyles in order to decide whether to believe the current line being towed by the U.S. government. I have a feeling they will return with a great admiration for the people of that area but not much good to say about the government there. It's time that all governments around the world become better representatives of the people they purport to represent, The U.S. included. Shanna Quillen: Let them come home. My heart is with you all. Vahid Razavi Anonymous Margo Beerdsen Anonymous Anonymous April van Vooren Anonymous Marlies Verschoor Cheryl Tjon: We in Holland support the release of these two men who didn't commit any crime! After seeing the oprah winfrey show, it is inspirational to see how strong Sarah is coping this. Our prayers goes to you all! Geertje groenendijk Romy Fransen: Let them free, from Holland Europe Emma Brown B. Senk Tiny van Stippent: in my prayers,hoping for freedom SOON!!! Kelly: This is just an awful situation. I saw the Oprah show here in Holland and it hits me. My heart goes out to Josh, Shane, Sarah and their families and friends. Never lose hope. Anonymous M.D.W. Versendaal Anonymous: for the sake of humanity, i truly hope these 3 people will be reunited in freedom, with their friends and family. may god bless you. Yasmin Sharif: Hi, i am from Holland and i just saw the show from Oprah with Sarah, and i was speechless! It is ridiculous that from the 3 people who committed the same ``crime´´ as the Iranian goverment calls it, only 1 person, Sarah, is released! It is not about whether they are Americans or not, they are people with family and feelings and you can´t let only one go and the other 2 still have to wait! So FREE SHANE AND JOSH! Herma Kuikhoven: Let them free please! Vera Kok: I saw Sarah on Oprah today, here in Holland we are behind the episodes. I prayed to God instantly that he has to have mercy on Shane and Josh and send them home! God help them, for they have done nothing wrong. Sarah, please stay strong and keep hope, because one day they will come back to you and their parents. And they will come back to you alive in this lifetime. Keep hope! Blessed be, y'all! Paula Natonio: please free these people and send them home. thank you Stephanie Mayers Anonymous: Free these young people who obviously had nothing to do with political espionage. Do not destroy lives just to make a point. Instead show graciousness and generosity by sending them home. Susanne de Smit: I hope that the people who have the power to let Shane and Josh free will loke into their harts and see that they still have love and that they can chance not only themselves but also by doiing the right thing the world. Eva Verbunt Anonymous Erik Verhoef: One voice from the Netherlands free the hikers for they are nothing more then hikers. Johan van Heuven: These people are innocent, they intented to do no harm and were just tourists. Please release them from prison so they can be reunited with their families and loved ones. Karin Keeris: Please free the Hikers, from the Netherlands, I hope they are home soon!!! Rene Davelaar: Free this people. It's not fair to keep them in prison for nothing. Anonymous: To the iranian Government !!! Get those guys out ! they don't deserve to be there, everybody should listen to gods word and if the government starts to listen to gods word they should know god does'nt detain anyone everybody should be free if there is no reason to detain and these guys are HIKERS not CRIMINALS Anonymous Raymonda: laat ze aub vrij ze hebben niks gedaan . we moeten hier voor vechten als je als wandelaar word opgepakt en in de gevangenis word gegooit dan vraag ol ,e af waar gaat de wereld heen. De mensen moeten eens vaker met liefde werken dan zou het niet zo'n ellende zijn . Ze gebruiken de wandelaars gewoon voor hun strijd tegen een ander land. waarom is het zo moeilijk om even om de tafel te gaan en eens echt naar elkaar te luisteren. want dat is het in de wereld niemand neemt de moeite om naar elkaar te luisteren en daar zijn deze wandelaars de dupe van schandalig. dus laat ze vrij , laat ze weer bij de familie Anonymous: these people should be send home this is a political fight who shouldnt be fought over humans Marjelle Gabriels: I hope that josh and shane will be released soon. I just watched sarah on the oprah show in the netherlands and i am in shock that they are held for no reason. I wish sarah and all of the family and friends of sarah, josh and shane a lot of strength and don't give up. Dana M Anonymous: Please allow these innocent people to rejoin their families in peace. janet tatar: I pray for God's peace for Shane and Josh Anonymous: I hope this helps. It's not necessary to keep them imprisoned, release them! Renate Heij: i saw the story yesterday on oprah in the netherlands. I was in shock!! Anonymous: Just saw Sarah on THE Oprah show. Isn't it à good idea if the USA government let's innocent iranians go and trade them for the innocent american hikers? Everybody happy. Heleen Geertsen: Please allow these boys to celebrate Christmas with their families and friends. It only takes ONE person with compassion to send these boys home. Make it happen! with regards, H. Geertsen, the Netherlands Anonymous: Those people where only enjoying the beauty of the nature of our world. Please let the beauty that is within you come out and give the boys what you would want for yourself, love and freedom. Fleur Wilms: My thoughts go to the hikers. This is a political issue. Stop this. So many human rights are violated. Anonymous moniek de wit mireille kroonenberg: We pray for you. Love and support from Holland JM., The Netherlands Anonymous Anonymous Noor: Let those people free!!!! Anonymous: I can't imagine how it must be for them and their family and friends. I just don't understand how people can be so mean to each other. Please let them go! Jackie langeveld Nadine Boersma: Please send these men back to their families. Minth Anonymous Judith tenney: Shane and Josch, hold on!!! You Will get out!!! In THE netherlands we also think and pray for you. Danielle: they need freedom!! Anonymous Liana Besselink: Im from The netherlands, i saw the oprah winfrey show today!! thinking of you!! Miranda: From the Netherlands Christa: Where is the love? Kristina Anonymous: Here in the Netherlands we also pray for theire release. Anonymous: Release all three Anonymous: Is this how we treat tourist who are interested in a country and their culture? Evelien Anonymous Anonymous: I've seen the oprah winfrey show when it was on air in the Netherlands and I hope that the two men will be home for cristmas Nikki Fairley xanne berg: please release! Sanne Wierda Anne: please free this men! let it be the beautiful beginning of a new free year! Anonymous Anonymous: Everyone deserves a honest trial! Please set them free! Anonymous: I hope this help to get them out of there soon. I wish the family strenght from all the people of Holland Nelleke from the Netherlands: Free all three!!! Anonymous Alicia: Please let them free!! Marcella: Saw the Oprah show yesterday on tv in Holland. Hope that they will be freed soon! Anonymous: Hope they'll be 2gether s00n! Anonymous: free them as soon as possible! Anonymous: Please let the Americans free today en let them live in freedom. Anonymous Laura (from the netherlands): I saw the show on oprah, terrible! Keep believing! klaas pieter hakvoort: Al the best and hope you will be home soon. The best off luck to all three of you. XXX kristel stekelenburg: Im from the Netherlands, just saw it on oprah. Terrible. Just cant amagine! Just let them be free. Because they have a long hard way to go already when they ever get out. Berivan H.: My thoughts and wishes go out to Shane & Josh and off course Sarah, who is still a prisoner of Iran. She is so wonderfull for still not feeling any hate towards Iran. Only if we all become full of hate, will we have lost this battle. We have to remain loving, and full of hope, because there is still hope that one day soon these precious sons, friends, brothers will be released. Thinking, praying, wishing for your freedom, From The Netherlands. Nikki HJ Wessels Caroline van Haften: Lets hope they will be sent to their family very soon. channah van dootingh: Take care! We just so you at Oprah and we're so moved by this story. Love from from Holland! Channah Stacy Helmin: Please let them be home with their families for the holiday season. Halee Lovvorn Jessica Fusch Anonymous Anonymous Gillian Haanen Katie Bredbeck Erika: Please send these two young men home to their families and friends so that they can continue living peaceful and fulfilling lives. Anonymous Nicole Guzman: Sent them home safe and sound. During this holiday season families and friends only want them to back in their lives. I hope you can find it in your hearts to release these innocent people. Emily Ruth: Please Iran, release Shane and Josh. They are good people with big hearts and the world so badly needs people like them, to be out and free and living to their potential. Please let them go. Janet Sandberg Dan Hoff: Kudos Sarah, Good Luck with the effort. Soe Min Than: May those who show kindness and compassion be blessed in this life and beyond. Debbie Allen ashley reichl Alyson Barrett Lindsay Malone: Shane, Josh, and Sarah are all in my prayers along with their families. I pray that they come home soon and get on with their lives the way God intended. Free All Three!!!! <3 Luke Tina Jackson: Iran you have all the power in this situation. Please show how compassionate you can be by releasing Shane and Josh. Amy Barnard Anonymous: Please, please extend a sign of good will and companionship. Free these young men, who have done nothing to hurt the Iranian state or government! brian nguyen Christine Scott Veronica T. Hood Anonymous: Send these people home. They are innocent and do not deserve this. They will be kept in prayer and i will do everything in my power to spread the word. Brian Chao: It's mind-boggling that this hasn't been resolved yet, and that the Iranian government would even bother to keep them detained for so long for such a minor and seemingly unintentional border violation. Furthermore, Sarah was released on humanitarian grounds, but what of Shane and Josh? What possible reason could there be for not extending the same humanitarian compassion to the two remaining detainees? Nonsense, as far as I can tell. Kelsey Stay Anonymous: I support the release of JOsh and Shane immediately. Michael Meiggs: Please consider how favorably the world will see Iran when the two hikers are sent home safely now. Aspasia Drizou: Please free the hikers sammantha faught: Shane and Josh are in our prayers!!!! Please send them home to their families! Anonymous Ronny Schuur: We live in one world, cross borders, find freedom and become friends Joshua: Take me instead! Free them! Kayla: Please let them go!~! kim buckley: Please for the love of your God, send these people home to their families. They innocent of any crime against your country. Thank you. Brandon Wade Monika M. Antonio DeBerry Anonymous Nur Izdihar Zainudin: Prophet Muhammad said, "Feed the hungry and visit the sick, and free the captive, if he be unjustly confined. Assist any person oppressed, whether Muslim or non-Muslim." I'm a Muslim, urging you to free these people who are unjustly confined. Denis Janssen Anonymous: Be Free Daniel Stinnett Anonymous isabel marcusson: free Shane and Josh. they are innocent ,no crime has been commtted . Stop this political gameplaying. Linda McCausland: Wishing you strength Dewah Gittens Debby de Haan: Hi! My name is Debby From Holland. My english is not so good, but i want to say, please free the hikers, bring them home. The have done nothing wrong, it's a shame that it has to go like this. thank you! Alexis Knipe Janet Kwan Rakib: This is so inhumane; more so for the fact that these are actually people who were working to bridge the west and the middle east. Please release them on humanitarian grounds. Anonymous: please sent them back home Anonymous Mary Ann Higgins Anonymous Natasha N. Woods: The hikers should be at home with their families. Have mercy. Please. sian greer Anonymous: I am from the Netherlands and beg you to free these people. too much time has passed, this is not human anymore. Please free thse Americans today! Anonymous faye torres Mary Van der Linden: Peace please. Please allow these innocent men, Shane and Josh, to come home. Thank you. Mary Angela Summers Bethany Walters Jeff Huntley: Please Free the Hikers! Elin Larsson: Free Josh and Shane! leah stokes Adrienne Crawford Ava Crawford Anonymous: Free Josh and Shane! Free All Three! Julian Crawford DONNA JONES: PLEASE bring these innocent Americans HOME! Shane & Josh dont dedserve to be political prisoners. How can this act improve relations with the US or any other nations for that matter? PLEASE, do the humane thing, and send these young adults home where they belong. Anonymous Darcy Bacon: Please free these loving people. Leslie Y.: Free Shane and Josh - they have been there for way too long, and have suffered enough. James Epstein Jessie Brooks: They crossed the border unintentionallyand what do they have to gain from "espionage?" They made a simplemistake and doesnt call for this kind of treatment! LET THEM GO!!!!! Anonymous Lori ElAhmad Andrea Reis Jack Flynn: RIGHT NOW Anonymous Vanessa Wilting Ellie: Please release Shane and Josh -- they have done nothing wrong and this situation brings shame and suffering to us all; may ALL beings be free! Joshua Dillard: This is wrong.These 2 men should be released immediately.They should have never been detained in the first place along with Sarah.My heart and prayers go out to all 3 of you. Bryant Ferguson Kevin Ritter Nana S. Akom: “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” -Robert Francis Kennedy Jessica Siems Kim Anderson Jannah T.: To the Islamic Republic of Iran: As a devouted Muslim and proud American, I would like to say that imprisoning innocent people against their will is NOT from our religion of Islam. I am asking you to free Shane and Josh from captivity as it is the right thing to do, it is what Allah would want you to do. Shane and Josh are innocent of any crimes and should be shown justice at its best. Please free them so that they can be reunited with their loved ones and we can all go to sleep at night with a good clean conscience. Thank you!! Sharon Hillman-Waters: My heart is so sad for Josh, Shane and Sarah. Please, please, please do the right thing and set these young men free. Peace, Hope and Love to all of you and your families. Bine Kimmer Jørgensen: Sadly so many people are trapped in regions of the world where democracy does not exist. I pray for these victims of the dictatorship of Iran; let them free now! Andrea Heaton: I don't think it really matters how they got into your country. We want them back. Even other countries are begging you to give them back. Is that what this is? You just like to have people begging you? Keep right on showing us how uncooperative and inhumane you can be and see what kind of treatment that brings you later in life. Ever heard of "What goes around comes around"? Your karma is screwed because of this abominable treatment to these persons. PLEASE, (there, I asked nice) will you please, give Shane and Josh back? Anonymous Trent Martens: It is an embarassment to your government that they have not secured their release. PEOPLE ARE NOT POLITICAL PAWNS! michael holley Kyle Kelly: Unfortunately, they are still imprisoned because the Iranian Government has some use for these two men. We all are hoping it is not something sinister. This should not be allowed to happen. I volunteer to take action if necessary. Eva Kellie Seales Janelle Evans Catherine Delgado Paul: My prayers are with these unfortunate souls. Something needs to be done to bring these American people home! Lauren Smith: Please free Josh and Shane. They did absolutely nothing wrong. The two are assets to the world and need to be freed now. Jennifer Jackson Lisa: It has been over a year now. It is time to let the innocent hikers go home. Anonymous: Please free these two young men. They should have been home yesterday. Alterra: What is this world If we cannot walk outside without fear of persecution? No evidence has been found and their detention has been shown to be a violation of international law. Please release them. Michael Catanzaro: Free Shane and Josh already. They did NOTHING wrong. eva mohorič Kimberly Minkel: It would be a sign of great compassion from the great nation of Iran to realize the unjustice done and to release these young people. Josh and Shane are clearly citizens of the world and their curiosity, sense for adventure and compassion to help people led them to these unfortunate circumstances. Please release them without any further delay. Anonymous: Please send these young men home to be with their families where they belong. Please show some compassion do the right thing. These young men along with Sarah are the kind of people we all should strive to be in life. Please do what we all know is right and release them!! Anna Fry: PLEASE FREE THEM. PLEASE. Dennis Bro Leth: My heart is filled with pain for theese two young men. Being kept, alone, wrongfully, and without any legal rights, in a iranian prison. I will chant for them, every single day, until they are free again, and WHEN that happens, I will continue to chant for their happines, an recovery! Dear family and friends... I think of you, and feel for you! Sincerely Dennis Emma: Please understand that I respect the Iranian people in culture, but to detain people for so long without justification goes against basic human rights, and I ask the government of Iran to recognize that. Janis Nichols: I was so sad to see your story about Sarah, hane and Josh - but also shocked to have only heard it the first time and it happened over a year ago. God bless and watch over you all jane speroff Isabella Mastropaolo: FREE SHANE AND JOSH! Paul Mackin: Put yourself in their place. Anonymous Eric Hart: May God be with you. Renee Chase Andrew: We are praying for the release of Shane and Josh. May the Lord of peace be with you. Anonymous: I only wish I would have heard of this long ago. Many prayers will be said for the hikers, their family, and their friends. Brian Gagnon: May the shared ability of all people, in all nations, to show justice, compassion, peace and love, appeal to the hearts of those in a position to free these two men. Nichole Hutchinson: Please have mercy on these young men. Anonymous: Do what's right. Free the hikers. Annie Lowe: DETAINED IN IRAN FOR TOO LONG—PLEASE FREE! Mieke Van den Bliek: You must know this isn't right... Would any of you like to be treated this way ? Please FREE Shane & Josh. Anna Hanselman Chet H.: Shane and Josh, stay strong. We're trying our hardest to help, truly, and all we need on your part is to keep living. Live like you've never done it before. Don't give up, or this'll all be a waste. Try. Just...try. And a note to everyone else who reads this, we can do this! Together, you, me, that person on your left, and Sarah can all free her friends. Set ALL THREE FREE! We won't rest until they're free! Maria Mariager: Please release Shane and Josh. They're innocent and don't deserve to be treated like criminals. Zeke Zimmer: Why Can't we all just get along? Josh Grueter: The America government would not treat Iranian tourists in this manner. Please Iran, FREE ALL THREE Anonymous: I am Austrian and fully supporting this cause. I really hope that Shane and Josh will be freed at last and this as fast as possible. Melanie Clark: Please let them come home. Anonymous: Further detainment of these innocents can only incite hatred against your government. Please help maintain respect between our nations and let these people go! Megan Bermudez Anonymous and4833@windstream.net Christopher Ryan Smith: I AM, always with you. Your story will one day serve as a ray of light to others. May the world unite & gain you all your freedom in an aware & conscious way. "If we have negative awareness, then this world is hell. If we have kind awareness, then this world is heaven." - Chinese Hermit (Amongst White Clouds) "Some people say that Buddhist practice is to dissolve the self. They do not understand that there is no self to be dissolved. There is only the notion of self to be transcended." - Living Buddha, Living Christ "Every form means the ego: even a rooster has its ego, and man has his own. Every form is centered in the ego. The formless means egolessness; then you are not centered in the ego, then your center is everywhere or nowhere." - Osho The state of being free is a state of mind. We are all one & I AM, with you always my friends. Mike Herbert: President Ahmadinejad, sir please allow these young men to come home to their families. marie Saintonge: courage!!!!! Julie Cardosi Kat Evans Noah Goodman Anonymous samir chabra Kelsey Saulpaugh Anne Rauschert: We are praying for you. Anonymous: Please set them free Anonymous Randy Hilleren: Please release these young men for Christmas with their families in 2010. Peace and joy, Randy H DSH: Please extend your gesture of peace among the nations and release the two American prisoners. Asha Laura Rose: Iran's continued detainment of these young men can only make that country look more foolish in the eyes of every nation in the world. Clearly these young men are not spies, and it is equally clear that they have not been treated justly even under Iran's own laws. Free Josh and Shane! Anonymous Anonymous Richard Hart: I am praying fo ryou people Anonymous: Free Shane and Josh now! Ana Rocha Alessandro Milani: Shane and Josh have suffered long enough for a simple mistake. Please let them go home. Anonymous: I support the peaceful release of Shane and Josh. Terry Harris: I believe these are good people with no bad intentions and deserve to be freed. Praise be to Allah. Anonymous Anonymous Michael Kossyrev: What these people are doing is cruel and inhumane. These hikers are innocent people, free them! Nuria Cherif: Please, will you free our fellow human beings who are loved beyond limits and measure? Every heart, everywhere, deeply loves, knows, and feels the sense of ache... though which is overwhelming spirit full of genuine hope, forgiveness, faith, love & compassion for these two men at last to be released and set side by side in freedom with the world, all Life, every human being, and especially their family. Heart is not forgotten, and helps hearts to not be left behind. Love turns and returns to Love. Please lovingly turn to your/our Heart, and return the Love~Home~ Shannon Bae: Josh and Shane are beautiful spirits that will endure and overcome this terrible wrong until it is made right. Tyler Morse: Please free these poor people! Deana: sending positive energy for your release. Travis Johnson Diane Cho Zachary Rogers Sarah Townsley-Ruiz: Please free these wonderful people! Free Josh and Shane! Kevin Thomas: Free the human beings from unjust captivity. Jessica Thomas Emily Allen Anonymous Jessica Phillips: Freedom! Karina Julie Leo N. Ring: Their continued imprisonment is a travesty. Please end it ?R: As the cofounder of The Age of Discovery, I highly suggest that you let these poor hikers go. It would help your reputation greatly. Alexander Shur: What was done is unjust, and i sincerely hope the remaining two Americans are freed. Anonymous: This is absurd and heartbreaking! Free the Hikers now! Jack Aldisert Anonymous Gaby Wildfeuer: Please find it in your heart to allow Josh and Shane to return safely to their homes. Jennifer Campbell Samuel Ludden: I've been following this story through Democracy Now! and I cannot imagine the heartache involved. I've been touched almost every day by thoughts of you three. I wish there were something I could do besides sign a petition and spread the word... Mary Trujillo René Antonio Ortiz: Everyone deserves to be free. please free the hikers. Anonymous John: These people were taken into prison for no good reason, and should be freed. Andrea Coldwell Sydnee Groenendaal: The world is a wonderful place, we should be allowed to discover it. Please free these travelers. Stan Lopez: Free these innocent people Jesse Jason: Do what's right and free these innocent people. Ashley Abramson: Please send these two kind, caring people home. They have done nothing wrong and deserve to be with their families for Christmas. Every moment you detain them, you put your country in negative light. The world is on your side, Shane and Josh, we are all here supporting you and praying for your immediate release. Anonymous Brent B.: FREE ALL THREE! i cried when watching your video and you deserved none of it i am so sorry i will be thinking of you often believe me! Brittany Lyons Amy Moore Riley C: Bad things should never happen to good people. We must stop the unfairness right now. I'll do anything to help. Beth Cheatheam: If there is any love in your heart, you will let these innocent men go free. Kelly McGonnigle: For the sake of humanity and peace, please release these young men. They have their whole lives ahead of them and don't deserve to spent that time in prison. Let them come back to those who love and miss them! Sarah Steiner ellyn thompson Megan Annie Buechl Richard Meyer michelle huynh Elizabeth Chastain Jennifer McKenney Meredith Gall Sofia S Anonymous: You guys are in my thoughts.I don't believe in god, but I will pray my very own way for your release. Please stay strong, and never give up. Ann Elson hobsignrho Cristina Birkel Corinne Eastman: This is very unfair, there is no evidence to prove that these men are guilty! Please free Josh and Shane and let them come home! Anonymous: This is just wrong, those people need to be free. Christin Clevenger Anonymous: The Iranian govt should stop this ridiculous power play and come up with a way of releasing them without losing face. Anonymous Joey Foo Jessica: Shane and Josh do not deserve this. Release them! Anonymous Janine Phillips: Enough! Jacquelyn Singer: Would you want your children in this situation. These young men don't deserve this. They are innocent. Nicole Daugherty: Please free these men. Anonymous: In hopes of a free and peaceful world Anonymous Laurie Schaefer: Please free Shane and Josh. Thank you. LeighAnn Little Anonymous: I will be demanding that New Jersey's Legislators get involved. We need to get this issue on their radar screen! Robert Holmes: Please free our brothers!!! Crystal Vargas Lindsay Bryant Anonymous: I am praying for the release of these and all the other innocent people imprisoned in this world. Please Free The Hikers. Emma Rose Bullock Edy Head: please free the hikers, they would free you! kate johnson brian herrin: God will fix this situation.. Daniel Purdy: Blessed is the day when all three of you are free! Kirsten Grady Quintin Deal: From the Qur'an 8:67 - It is not fit for a prophet that he should take captives unless he has fought and triumphed in the land; you desire the frail goods of this world, while Allah desires (for you) the hereafter; and Allah is Mighty, Wise. You are not at war, and they have done nothing wrong. Please release them. Thank you. Melissa Merritt Danielle Villanova Anni Laas: Our family from Estonia feel for all three! Robert E. Jacobi Jr. John Pignataro: How is it that we can fight for the freedom of others, but can't seem to get our act together to fight for the freedom of our own? If these were American soldiers, I'm guessing things would be quite a bit different. We need intervention!!! Anonymous: When there is so little gain by keeping these young souls I urge you to free them. Show the world compassion in the context of our common humanity. Our common humanity - living on this small planet - could and should lead to open hands instead of clinched fists. Please, please set them free. Anonymous velma h.k. Thomas: Please free the American's. They need their family and their family needs them. They did no wrong except to get lost. Please i beg of you, please let them go. For once please have a heart! Anonymous: It is shameful to hold innocent people in prison. Its sad that this action only breeds more negative feelings toward Islam. Please release Shane and Josh for humanitarian reasons so we can celebrate a beginning of understanding between cultures. Anonymous: Canadian praying for their freedom Derek Bailey: I am shocked at the total injustice of this situation. The Iranian government should free Shane and Josh on the simple fact of false and unjust imprisonment of two great humen beings. Anonymous Lizette Garcia marcus samuelsson: Free the Hikers Anonymous: Please show compassion for these youn men. What if they were your family How would this feel to have you sons In a foreign prison? Release them and Show america you have compassion and yo You do care! Bob Loblaw: With all the beautiful places to hike in the world, there choice is suspect. It serves them right tempting fate and they are where they belong based on their own stupidity. Have fun rotting in Iraqi prison. Emma Reading: Send them home! Joanna Diane Trachtenberg: For the release of Josh and Shane, the government of Iran will be very much appreciated. Blaise: Free the remaining hikers, Shane and Josh. Show some mercy to those innocent souls. They do not deserve it and we will not stop our support until justice is achieved. The world doesn't need more of this, I don't understand why they have to suffer!!! FREE THEM!!!! God bless the hikers. Carletta Mac: In New Zealand we believe in freedom. Free those who have committed no crime!! Kristina Vero Testa christine: Set them free barbara: please have mercy in your heart and save these two innocent boys and allow them to go home to their families. Ruthie O\'Reilly: I've only just heard about this and find it hard to believe. These kids need to be freed now! Amber Miller: Please send home our friends!!! Nicolette: This is horrible. Please save the hikers. They don't deserve to be held in prison for nothing. Signing the petition all the way from Sweden. Yvonne Anonymous Frank McKinney Cheyenne Yates Grayson Capers: I pray for these families. They shouldn't have to suffer. These are innocent people who have committed no crime. Robin Bastin Barbara Wiss Lynda Curry: There freedom is long past due...give them the freedom they freedom they deserve... Lisa Burns: Stop using human lives for political reasons. Lee Chayot Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh. Thank you for freeing Sarah. We're now hoping for the release of the two young men. Michelle Tebo: Please release these innocent people and allow them their freedom!! The world would respect you so much! marion wynn: my Christmas wish is for Josh and Shane, that they will be released ASAP. Anonymous: Please free them! Jenevieve Anonymouse: Free the innocent!! Zeynep Oguz Megan: It's Christmas eve, and their families are spending it without them. Have a heart, be a human being, free Josh and Shane. el nNahon Maura Malloy Marie jen manuel: Please free the hikers! They did nothing wrong. Josh and shane deserve to be home with their families. Thank you. Rocio Ungaro Anonymous: Please, for humanities sake, let these young men go. Christine McCabe: Please send them home..... Tim Bragg Debdoot Sarkar: Let the birds fly. Sharon Myers: Please Maryann Marino: To President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Judicial Leaders, Sarah's release was a wonderful gesture of good will and compassion. We ask that you show the same consideration toward Shane and Josh. There is confusion as to whether Iranian forces entered Iraq or whether the young hikers crossed over an unmarked border. Regardless, these young people meant no harm. Releasing Shane and Josh would be a momentous event to start 2011 and would be a show of good faith. It is time to start an open dialogue to work together to end the mistrust. Susan S.: Please free the hikers, ASAP! lauren reich Anonymous: May you all find the strenght to hang on! Oliver Gill: It would appear the Pope has some sway with the Iranians- curious and in a way rather hopeful. Tina Krliu Sarah Ayoub: Inshallah Shane and Josh will be released. I pray for their safe return to their family in America. Carrie Williams Jennifer Miller Kendra Kellogg Diarmuid Breatnach: Whatever people are accused of, they should be treated humanely and with respect to their human rights. Being permitted to correspond with families, ready access to legal advice and detention before trial, if necessary, should be as short as possible. Kelly Neville: Please start the new year with kindness and free the Hikers. Jas: Please respect and observe human rights and international law. You have no reason or cause to hold Josh and Shane. Lily: set them free!!! Holly Poole-Kavana Kaila Shatteen Karen Byars: Please FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER & JOSH FATTAL. Deborah Balcanoff: Please free Shane and Josh. They have committed no crime and deserve to be free to return to their families. Danielle Langley Cathy Miller: These three young people are not your enemies. They have compassion and respect for all cultures and are definitely not spies. Please treat them the way you would want to be treated as innocent tourists in our country. Thank you. Manon Anonymous JAY LEVINE Seville Anonymous Terri Neher: Please release Shane and Josh and let them return home to their families and friends. Anonymous: Let tHem free, please!!!!!1 Debbie Keene Anonymous: As a parent, a sister, a daughter, a grandmother, a granddaughter, a human being, we are all connected; we all feel; we all breathe; and we all know in our hearts what truth is. I'm envisioning that the people who are empowered to open their hearts and release Shane and Josh will connect with their higher source and their compassionate selves today. I know they will think fondly of their loved ones and pass those loving thoughts from their family to allow Shane and Josh the honor of being with their friends and family. The true power in life is in showing compassion, the true heroes in life are those who can rethink their choices and be brave and with that choose to make a difference. There is courage in doing what is right. May the leader's of Iran make this courageous gesture of freeing these young men. May that choice give you strength and peace; and may that be passed on to the people of Iran, for their true hearts are a reflection of all of us. Although I've never met these young men; I know what it is to be a mother of a son, a grandmother to two grandson's and most importantly, a human being. I feel grateful to know that everything is coming together now for Shane and Josh to be safely home. Corinna Lathan Sarah b: These young people Did nothing knowingly wrong. They need as much support as possible tofree them. FREE THE HIKERS!!!!!!!!!!! Ian MacDonald: Please do what you know in your heart is the right and just action. Eugena Anonymous: Please for the sake of a mother's hearts, please release the boys. David Hyman Anonymous: I only recently found out about this story but since then I've been really moved by it and I check for updates regularly. My thoughts and prayers are with these two men and their famalies and I pray that you all find the strength to undergo this ordeal untill it's over. Lisa Woodson Brian Woodson Liliana Silva: I'm not from America. Human Rights are being violated. Political reasons cannot be our guidance, because they are the path to war (and this is a rule to many other countries, because some Americans are guilty too for war crimes, political conspirations, violence...). But countries like Iran should not exist in our world. They should be punished for this and other issues. Civilian people from Iran should not be ruled by tyranny and dictators. Færgur M Anonymous: Please release these children of God to their families and loved ones. Ann hansen: Hoping for a speedy release from denmark.. Rose W. Melanie Kjaersgaard Line Bendsen Poulsen: Hello.. My name is Line, I'm 23 years old and I'm from Denmark. I saw Sarah on the Oprah Winfrey Show, it was shown on danish television today. I's a shocking story and I hope and pray that Josh and Shane will be released as soon as possible! Anonymous: Please, show mercy and send these two young men back to life. Back to their families and those who love them, and miss them every second. Sara Hemmati Kay DeGennaro: We remain in prayer for the recognition of innocence and the release of Shane and Josh. Lynlee Bischoff: Please! Do what is right. Send these men home to be with their families and to carry on the good works that have been their life. Michele Freeman Greg Zeigerson Robyn Lauster: I am a 65-year-old mother and grandmother. I can't imagine the pain these families are feeling, worrying about Shane and Josh. They are clearly ON YOUR SIDE when looking at politics. They are peacemongers and not happy with the imperialist ways of their own country. Please free them and let them return to their work of peace in the world. MARISA: Just watched you on Oprah and praying for you to come home Anonymous: Prayers for Josh and Shane's safe journey back to their homes. D Tonello DONNA B I C: I PLEAD WITH YOU TO SAFELY RETURN JOSH AND SHANE HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES AND UNITED STATES WHERE THEY BELONG. THESE BOYS ARE NO THREAT TO YOU OR YOUR COUNTRY. IT'S TIME ..... DO IT TODAY ...... 1~2~11 Ilana Dani Topping: This is truly ridiculous. Please let them go! Pat Wulfmeyer Jaclyn Phelps Monica Bernhardt Laura Nicoletti Lindsey Castillo Jana Maiuri: They've done nothing wrong. Anonymous: My friends and family members join me in asking the Iranian government for a moment of grace in which Josh and Shane are again simply human beings who got lost by mistake and are now paying a huge price for their innocent error. Please take this graceful moment and free these young men so they can heal and be with their loved ones. They are meant to help others in dire situations, and we need them, and others like them, to assist those others in need. Please show your dignity and humanity and free these two wonderful young men. Thank you. Anonymous Anonymous: Please allow Shane and Josh to join their families. Show a humanitarian grace and allow them to move on. There is no benefit to having them spend more time in prison. Please release them. Noreen Ramsden: Please release these young people who have so much to offer the world if they were free Anonymous Courtney: I don't know what to say. I cannot imagine...I am thinking of their homecoming. Anonymous Anonymous: Freedom is what this nation stand for... then this nation needs to make other countries understand it! David Penzel: You call your religion one of compassion and mercy. Prove it. Anonymous Ellen Sharon Rohm: This is crazy. I pray they come back soon. Laura Napier Elaine Dutton Aaron Woods Danielle N. Cook Francisco Martinez Dana Keiser: be the change you wish to see in the in the world. let your compassion by freeing Josh and Shane be the example for all the world to follow.Please free Josh and Shane. Thank You! Anonymous: Please allow Josh & Shane to go back home. Any mistake made was minor, and their time has been more than served. These gentlemen have families, friends, and a future ahead of them. Please allow them their freedom. Anonymous: This story has really touched me. I really pray the Iranian government shows compassion in releasing Josh and Shane and doesn't just continue to use them as pawns in a political sphere. It's just senseless! Please please release them. They have not done anything wrong. Cynthia Patience Jeremy Hyatt Juan Lee: Freedom for all, free Shane and Josh.........now, please. Anonymous Craig Hammersmith: In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate salaam alaykum wa rahmtullahi wa barakatuh Please show the same virtues toward these non-belligerents and let them return to their families and loved ones. I thank you for all you are able to affect in this matter. Sincerely, Craig Hammersmith a concerned lover of Imam Husayn and Ahlul Bayt E. Hettinga: Free the innocent hikers please! They deserve to live in freedom again! Matthew Kime Sarena D Martine Luykx Christy Brown Michelle Hernandez Anonymous Ellie Kaplan Mitchell Cohan Jana Hammond Anonymous Stefi Barna paige johnston: blessings Rachel Brock Clearwater Sarah Plante Andrew Kolb-Gouviea: Justice will still remain in chains until the innocent hikers Josh and Shane are released from unjust captivity. FREE ALL THREE! Kyle Coughenour: IRan is being a bully by not releasing the american hikers; they have commited no crime and are being forced to endure all types of torture while being continually locked up Larissa: Please let Shane and Josh come home to their families, please don't let politics rule our freedom, please let humanity have a chance in this cruel world we live in. It's time for Iran to prove those who believe Iran to be a tyranny that this is not the case. Please give Shane and Josh their freedom!!!!! susan cooley TIM DUNEGAN Emma Ohm Kyvik: Here in Norway we hope that Shane and Josh will soon be released and able come home again! Camilla Rebekka Olsen Tonje Forreløkken Olene Øvstebø Kristine T. Mari Mulelid Johanne Andrea Engstad Nilsen: My thoughts goes to Shane and Josh. Please release them! Support from Norway. kristine: let these people go, they have not done anything wrong. I saw on the Oprah Winfrey show the history of dem.and in norway we wil pray for you Mari Ringlund: Please send these people home! Ann-Elisabeth Drønnesund Linn Svendsen: I hope Shane and Josh are set free as soon as possible!!! Tina Hakbilen Hilde: Please send Shane and Josh home. Stine Bridget Doyle: Please, for the international community and as a gesture of good will, free Josh and Shane from unlawful detainment. Cristina Seica Jennifer Woo laura sullivan Anonymous Emelie Andersson: I cant even imagine the pain you must all feel. I can only send my thoughts to you! Pernilla Andersson Sofia Carlsson Samuel. V Malin Karlsson: I just saw the Oprah Show when it was aired here in Sweden and I think it's outrageous what you are gping through and wanted to join the protest Anonymous Leila B: Please release the yong men and give them their lifes back helen järvinen: we from sweden hope that Josh and Shane will be released!!!!! Anonymous: shane and josh you are in my heart. so are the people close to them. stay strong. love from sweden Sofia Ljungquist: Blessings from Sweden! Fatima Javiera Vergara Hanna Hansen Sara Holm: Please send them home! We in Sweden are hoping for their release! Anna Anette Fredrikson Sweden Austin Hammond Linda Ek, Sweden Anonymous Aleksandra Klahn Emmy Klahn Eugene Hammond E. Sirevåg: Sending you support from Norway. Anonymous: This has gone on long enough....free these innocent young men in a show of peace and good will!! Tara Jennifer Yeatts Anonymous Therese Linerhav Hafdís Harðardóttir Anouck Tosyali Susanna Ohlsson: Please free Shane and Josh and let them come home to their families. Thank you. David Adams: To the people in power - where ever that may be - you know what is right. Set the hikers free and in so doing it will set you free. Anonymous: Just imagine if it were your child. Don't let politics stop you from being human. Let them go home to the people they love, where they belong. Sílvia Martínez: Please, send them home. cj gustafson Anh Quach Lynette Mason Brian Mayberry: Let these people go free. Holding them is not going to help your image in the eyes of the world! Richard Hardy Nicole Ong Clarisse Todoran Anonymous Bianca Anonymous: Free them please!! they don't deserve this!! Anonymous Deborah Buchanan Eric Hernandez Christina Weaver: NOW! JULIE C - Mass.: Free Shane & Josh! Rebecca Davis Michael Richeson: Please free Shane and Josh. You may not like the U.S. Government, but these hikers were simply enjoying your country. Let them come home! Marina Nemat Laura Johnson Lindsay Martin julia putnam Michael Hind rich westman: not eating for ten days, on day two, hope to draw some attention via facebook... bless I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something... Sheryl Petrey Anonymous Elaine Holmberg Allison Iacone Warren Quinton: Please do not allow your understandable contempt for the USA to tar these decent and innocent young individuals with the same brush. Nancy Johnson: Please free all three Dr. Rebecca Wolfe: Iran claims to be a compassionate nation. This is a great opportunity for them to demonstrate it. Morten Bringsli Anonymous: Please Free the boys and send them home to their family. Miles Reed CiKilty Belt-Vahle Cynthia Pascarello Chris Kifuthu Neil Cline Travis Smith Karen Sugiyama Lisa Holmes Josh Schlossberg: What freaking century is this?! Set the kids free! Joyce Blowers Jesse Putnam marla molina Karyl dalbey: " god will make a way"! Anonymous: I personally have known and lived in the same town as Josh. I knew him up until the summer he was captured. In Cottage Grove he worked on appropriate technology for agriculture and energy conservation. He was hiking and enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Middle East when he was captured and became a political pawn. Not everyone in the United States is proud of every foreign intervention and action of the U.S. government and U.S. corporations. I don't think anyone can be proud of making Josh a pawn. Tony Caldarella Anonymous Tim Purkiss: The Islamic Republic of Iran should demonstrate good will and respect for human rights by releaseing these innocent prople immediatly and allow them to return home. Annette Rutledge: To the Iranian authorities what you have done is arbitrary and inhumae and I support the call on you to release without delay Shane Baur and Josh Fattal. If you dont want tourists in your country then stop them at the border! Marcie Keever Emmy Steven M Fake Katrin W: My warmest thoughts are sent Josh and Shane from a warm heart in cold Sweden. Hope you will be released soon!! Anonymous Kathi Wilderman Sean McGuire Anonymous: Bring them home safe and sound. Paul Moura Chelsea Thomas Laura Ewers: PLEASE SEND THEM HOME! Janice Takahashi karen fletcher Trevar Doran Kolodny Anonymous Annalisse Walker Anonymous: Please get them back safe to their families. Anonymous Anonymous: free all political prisoners all over the world Anonymous: please free Josh and Shane. They were only hikers and their time in your jail is such great punishment. M N: I'm From Morocco. I'm against this trap Anonymous: FREE SHANE AND JOSH!! Besan Barhoumeh: all the Support from Jordan ! Char Weaver: If you are really people of faith ,you will have it in your hearts to let them go home to there families now.....unharmed Anonymous Caroline Blosser: IHP Alum Anonymous: I am an Iranian citizen and I want you know that we are deeply deeply sorry about this event. we are very ashamed about what Iranin government is doing. I pray for Hikers and all other innocent prisoners. Anonymous jacqueline idio: Hi! I'm a Filipino working in Bahrain.My message is for Iran President , I don't understand why did you held captive these innocent people , is it bec.US held captive of some Iranian too.?As far as I know ISLAM means PEACE.I hope you find somewhere in your heart to free these INNOCENT MEN.Insha Allah.Shoukhran Mr.President.As a Catholic always says May God Bless You in whatever you are doing.To Sarah I applaud you for being so brave. Anonymous julie benveniste Megan Costello: Please free the hikers. To be young and curious is not a crime. Let them go, they're just kids! Zeynep Oguz Katy Turley Anonymous: The time has come, it has been long enough. Please show the world that you are compassionate and wise. A concerned world citizen residing in The Netherlands. Wendy Rice Cindy: God bless you all for this support , we continue to pray for the release of Josh and Shane. God is good and faithful :) Ashleigh Moore: Be an agent of positive change, for your people and ours - release Shane and Josh. Mrs Camilla Burton Sarah: This is totally unfair...these boys have families who are hoping & praying EVERYDAY that they get released!! Kristine Gentry: Free all three!! Briana Riley: In your heart you know what is right. They are not the people you should be angry with or afraid of. David Bates Brock Sweigart Kullereng: Minnesota supports the release of the hostages; it's been long enough. Just name what you want, and let's see what we can do about it. Anonymous: Please free them and send them home to their families! steve cannon K J Carson Anonymous Robert Scott Harrison Marianne Bland Isabel Gardocki Lacey Reilly DeLinda McKinney Anonymous Connie Chung Bobby Field Laurie Gaudino Tom Frenkel Anonymous Anonymous: Free all three! Anonymous Chelsie Henderson Anonymous David Meyer: Hello Sarah, Shane, and josh, i really think what you guys have done for this country is really fantastic, i really hope you guys go free and come home to your family i really really do thank you so much for what you guys have done for us. David Meyer Matt Robbins Barbara Garber: Please FREE JOSH, He is to come home to his family. Please release him now!!! Ben Manuel-Honolulu: FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER & JOSH FATTAL DETAINED IN IRAN FOR TOO LONG— Roy Jacob: Imagine Shane and Josh were your brothers. It is an injustice that is happening. In the name of compassion, please release them. Maggie Alexander Jennifer Campbell Anonymous Susan Koetter Maureen Field: One day was too long - send them home. Nancy Castleman Megan E. Favazza: Have mercy on Shane and Josh! Free the innocent. Anonymous: Please release these people and give them a chance to defend themselves and see their families. Anonymous Sara Larivee Karen Harvill Anonymous Anna O Donoghue Emma Crook: Please show compassion for these men & their families. They have done no wrong and we, as a world community implore you to release them. Freda O Kane: Just saw Sarah on oprah and I want to give my support for the release of Shane and Josh. Pete: Hi im in Ireland , seen about these innocent people on TV and felt i would like to add support for their freedom . I hope they will be home with the people who love them and who they love soon, Don't give up guys all will be good , Best wishes to the family's and friends of these people , our prayers are with you all . Anonymous: We in Ireland have a good relationship with the iranian people. Please Iran release these men. Please Iran do the right thing free these Anonymous Anonymous Áine: Please free Shane and Josh. They have committed no crime. Ireland supports them. Gemma P: I only seen this on the Oprah Winfrey show today the 3/2/11 and i cant believe they are still not released i hope you have some news soon god bless clarefoley Anonymous: Please RELEASE Shane and Josh and let them return to America. Anonymous Emma Grice Carmel Harrington Trudi Jamison Deirdre Glavin: The people of Ireland want Shane and Josh to be free. This is your chance to show compassion and prove that Iran is tune with THE REST OF THE WORLD. Anonymous Cynthia Lytle Anonymous jacqueline fields: Im an irish citizen and have just watched the episode of Oprah in which Sarah was interviewed along with Shane & Josh s mums . Im absolutely appaled at the Iranian govt holding these innocent people who were just on a holiday. Release them now please and return them to their families Susan McCormack: Sarah's & the moms story on Oprah really made me think. You are all in my prayers xx Leah Katzelnick Aileen: I just saw the Oprah Show here in Ireland and just wanted to join the petition to hopefully free Josh and Shane, this should never have happened. Rosanna murphy: Set them free!!!! Anonymous: Please, I beg you, in the name of humanity, please listen to all the voices of those who plead for the safe return home of Shane and Josh. Sincerely, Claire Brande, Ireland Cara Murphy audrey donnelly Anonymous Lucy Snyder Jason File Carly: <3 alisa garber dosch Lori Neises Anonymous Hania Y Faith Flagler Richard Keane Meredith Miner Ciara Meldon Anonymous: Please allow these young men to return safely to the United States, they have commited no crime!! Anonymous: Ireland asks for their release also.. Julie Setele Mary Kosta Angela Peters Anonymous Sara louise syrotiuk Tanner Welsh Anonymous vance cah Geoffrey Carol Crystal Julie S. Engbrecht Erika Anonymous: It's inhuman to detain people for such a long period of time in solitary confinement. I am asking the Iranian authorities not only to let Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal see their lawers and families and get a fair trial in case of they might have ignored an Iranian law, but to liberate them immediately if they are imprisoned without having committed any crime! Please take a look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and realize that your country is violating these human rights by the way you have proceeded in this case. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml The world community is no longer willing to accept the terror of governements who are not respecting fundamental human rights. Lindsay Katona Orla Cronin Anonymous Anonymous Deborah Ritter: The government of Iran should settle their grievance with America through the many open political and international channels available, and not by baseless charges against innocent American citizens. Both governments should do this, as America is not so innocent having kept prisoners without trial in Guantanamo Bay. But Iran should rise above this, show international integrity and and release these people as the world community can see that the charges against them are groundless. Victoria Pitt Ronald Sanson Stresser Junior: Iran, please, set the hikers Shane and Josh free. (from Brasil) Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous: Please free all three of these young workers for good in this world. Thank you. Anonymous steve whitteker: No one is more ashamed of the historic treatment of Iran by Western powers than me. Most Canadians,like myself, and Americans have little idea of this tortured background. They see Muslims as extremist and irrational. The freeing of these hikers could go a long way to repairing that image.Thankyou. Rebecca cook Joan Larson Simon Dean: Please release these young men and send them home. They are not spies nor criminals. They miss their homes and families. bonnie James Koussis V. Govil Elizabeth Stephanie Leonard: Please free the hikers! martk s germain Mary Sueda Jeff Horwich Jennifer Eldridge Jessica Rebecca Bernstein: Please send these boys home!!! Cort Greene: Free Josh and Shane and all the political prisoners in Iran. Anonymous Stefanie Walton Suzanne Clothier Lorraine Kerwood: Please release these individuals. Claudia Stevenson Ben Angarita MD Anonymous Karen Kennedy Karen Beasley: The world is waiting and watching Ricardo Salvato: Let them FREE!!! I hope this finishes in a happy end, and all love and strength to the parents of Josh and Shane... rebecca austern jessie zena Matt Duning Elizabeth Hopper Kali Wagner Sabina Becker Mohammed Husseine: بسم خير الاسماء, بسم الله رب الارض والسماء ,.بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أللَهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَاجْعَلْنَا مِنْ دُعَاتِكَ الدّاعِينَ إلَيْكَ وَهُدَاتِكَ الدَّالّينَ عَلَيْكَ وَمِنْ خَاصَّتِكَ الْخَاصِّينَ لَدَيْكَ يَا أرْحَمَ ألرَّاحِمِينَ Please release those guys asap! as it was reported those people are Hikers (Tourists) and not spies, Please have consideration of the ignorance of the borders... and in consideration of your mutual relation with country which they been visiting. Anna: The world has waited long enough. Please free these men. Katherine Salinger April Windsor Michelle Andrade Anonymous Gina Marie Montalvan Anonymous Kelly: Please release the hikers!! Peace Tzvetie Garneva Joana Pimneta Amy Henry Anonymous Miranda Hall: This is terribly inhumane and so very unfortunate. I pray that they are released soon without any charges. Jerome Gillis: TAKE A STAND FOR SARAH SHROUD, SHANE BAUER AND JOSH FATTAL! Neither you, I nor the rest of the world could buy the release of Shane & Josh. Political pressure from around the world hasn’t worked, so why not overwhelm them with “Body Pressure.” I mean, literally fly to Afghanistan in mass and hike to where they were forced across the border to Iran. We could continue to hike, in unison and in a peaceful way, to where they are being held. If we could get hikers from around the world, (organized by someone a hell of lot smarter then me,) we could all be killed or they would have to free Shane & Josh. The point is, although I have no idea why they were hiking there, (I have no idea why some would hike “Death Valley”) but if they’re not breaking the law, more power to them. I’m an old man, but if one of you would organize it I would go along and walk proudly at the front! Kerry brooks: Free all three! From Cambridge, England Paul DeFelice Mark de Jongk Angela Cuebas Susan P.: Please send these boys home. Erin Wood Melanie Fitzgerald Julie Stein Anonymous Anonymous: Dear Mr. President... please let these poor poeple free... Therese: may the truth prevail, and free those innocent people. Dave Baker: Please free these young workers to show good will to the world. Melanie Tinken tim rusler: it was a mistake nothing more than that they arent spys. Anonymous Amy Fried: Please show compassion for these young people---do not use them as political pawns. By all accounts, prior to their imprisonment in Iran, they worked for justice and an environmentally sustainable world; they are not an enemy to the Iranian people. Send them home to their loving families and friends. Anonymous carmen: praying and pleading for Josh and Shane to be free, that they be released because they are innocent Anonymous: please free these guys.......it's not hard to figure it out! Sune Jensen Sally Hammell Jenny Bohrman Sivita Justice: The world is watching. We know the integrety of the hikers. What kind of country will Iran show itself to be? Noel and Joanne Giffin Linn Barabash: Our prayers are with the boys and their families. Anonymous Nancy Drew Anonymous Alexander G Briggs: Just free them. Anonymous: People who are doing good in this world should never be treated like this. Anonymous Lanie (rhymes with Janie): What happened to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"? I can't believe captors put themselves in prisoners' places; imagine what it is like to lose freedom. John Mark Robertson Risa Epstein sam mohamad qaredaqi: I saw innocent faces of three hikers. I believe they are innocent. I feel sorry for this evil plan of Iran government. All of my countrymen in Iran like me are against this. I hope Iran release the hikers and let them go back home. mitch palmer: Ill sign this but I dont think it will do anything. Anonymous Anonymous Jacob Montgomery Elizabeth Stallone: Thoughts and prayers are with Josh, Shane, Sarah and their families. Wishing all a speedy and safe return home. Anonymous Caitlin Hahn Glenn Fleagle: Please consider the fact that they've paid so much of their time already. Andy Merillat Kevin LeBlanc Abe Kruger jane affonso Lucy Lee Victoria Nevin Dennis and Hope Jennifer Hall circe dunnell: It is long past time to free Shane & Josh, free them now Chenoa Skeete Anonymous: Please let them go! Cara Bendler Anonymous: They like to mess with us Americans and are using your boys to do it amber Stephen Hauplti: We beg for compassion and understanding within the actions that control the fate of Shane and Josh. As-Salamu Alaykum Anonymous: In the name of all that is right and human, please free Shane and Josh. In the name of our shared vision of a world that is good and right for your children, and for mine, please free Shane and Josh. And let us return the compassion for your people, and do what is right also. Alison Tubini Miner Maria Roy Patricia Shourd Reed: So very thankful for the release of Sarah, But it is not enough!! FREE ALL THREE!! Peter Logan Margaux Smith Janice Thurston: please free them! Anonymous: Had the pleasure of meeting Josh while he worked at Aprovecho. Josh volunteered at our farm in Eugene OR for a summer. He helped us pick orchard fruit, and the Apro kids would take the seconds of our fruit back to Apro for processing. He was motivating for me when i was worn down, and offered the idea of a "30 second party" where i was encouraged to rock out and dance for 30 seconds...i actually do that now, usually i'm by myself, but i always think of him when i need a quick attitude fix. :) I think i've signed this already, but just in case. Holding you all strong in my grasp. Love. Human Rights Advocate: This is a disgrace to humanity and the height of inexcusable paranoia. You bring immense grief to innocent souls and irreversible shame to Iran. Anonymous Steve Bunce: from Australia Molly: you are wasting time holding these people, they are not the true criminals, please the them come home. peace! Ronald Brown: These people have done nothing wrong. Please release them. Jean Gore daniela Terryn Turner LISA ANNE GARCIA: I am praying for their safe return and committing to tell their story until they are home! Anne Hopkins Mary Prophet: Don't use these caring young people as political footballs. Please free them all. John Darnielle Katrina Drew Jessica Stay a hanscom Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh today!!! Griffin Conway: Never give up, freedom is close freedom to love freedom to smile. Shane & Josh will be free and our hearts will fill with love, Hang in there Sarah we believe in you. I was at the bottom of the hill benefit with the nightwatchman, " I'm am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" Keith ward: Anyone who likes The mountain goats ain't no spy Anonymous Anonymous: Let them go!!! Emily R: Detaining these two innocent young men is senseless, not to mention unproductive for Iran. Please release them, for God's sake. Michelle Hix: Do the right thing. Set them free. Anonymous: Free the hikers now. Jessica Jordan: Please free these innocent men - Shane and Josh and let them return home - to their families...to their loved ones...where they belong. Stephanie Stambaugh: It is evident from the honest testimony and life stories of Josh and Shane that they are without fault, and have never been at fault, that they are innocent and their continued imprisonment violates their human rights set for by the United Nations for all citizens of the world. The Iranian government has no cause to hold them and therefore I urge the Iranian government to immediately grant them an unconditional release today and show the world community their compassion for these two men who have done no wrong and should have never been held. Asha Glee Tipton: You are always in my thoughts, I want you home,Shane and Josh. Please Republic of Iran let them come home,we are peace loving people. Anonymous: Please be kind with an act of compassion, allow them to safely return home. Thank you. Anonymous Darwin Brown: By the blessings of Allah free them! Lori D: FREE THE HIKERS! Don't give up hope. You are in our prayers! Stephanie Chang Anonymous: it is up to god to decide he will instruct you on what to do Deborah Ogaard Nicosia Katherine Vondy John S. Burke: Enough is enough. Bring Shane and Josh home now. Valentin DUBUC Zane Preston Lori Nichols: Please release Shane and Josh, two men that have so much to offer the world. They are innocent, there is nothing to gain by keeping them in jail. Rick Spencer: Hope the Egyptian democracy movement is sending shivers down your BACK!!!! Elisabeth Scott Dan Dumalac Lois Brooks: I hope you will free Shane and Josh and show the world that your country does what is right. Thank you! Anonymous Anonymous Janine Klaas: The time has come for every being to begin focusing on what makes us the same. Be kind, be compassionate, and peace will find you. Lisa Leuthold: My prayers are with Shane and Josh. Please let them come home. Anonymous Maureen Monchamp Laurie Brody Anonymous Yolanda Simone Charlotte Swavola Megan Chlada Lorna MacMillan: Please send Shane and Josh home to their loved ones. Anonymous Matt Kocet: It's bullshit that these people are being held. FREE SHANE AND JOSH NOW! Shonna Morgan: Free the Hikers! Now! Cathleen: These are people, not pawns. Meghan Clothier bill shackell cathi pace Sacha Christianson Rajat Bansil aleesha meyer of kalamazoo michigan: this is ridiculous...free the hikers.i just hear about this and it is 2011...people need to be making a bigger deal of this!!!!!!!!wissh u luck.... Mike Golub: I commend the personal work of all three of the hikers. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal must be let free for they have committed no crime. The problems between Iran and our own US Government need to be resolved peacefully, but they also have nothing to do with these three courageous individuals who were doing peaceful work to make the world and the region better. My wife and two daughter are with you Sarah!!! Sincerely, Michael Golub, Brooklyn, NY Anonymous Isabel Rodríguez / Mexico jeff squires Crystal Mixon Ailidh Macleod: Please release Shane and Josh, and show the world that Iran is a compassionate country. Judy & Frank Grochowski: Please send these young men home. Please do this in the spirit of making our world more peaceful and trusting in the other. Michelle Matteoni Raya Cooper: give them fresh air Tinita Olson Victoria Fantozzi Anonymous Anonymous: Please, do the right thing and return these friends to their home. Thank you Brook Alloway Anonymous: Please release Shane and Josh on humanitarian grounds. They did not intend any harm. leah taylor sara barrett rebecca Naomi Lawler Anonymous: Please release Shane and Josh. This is just unimaginable. They need to come home and be with their families. Krissa Lagos gina bubulina Tiffany THE POWES: SARAH, WE'RE SO SORRY WHAT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AND THEIR FAMILY'S ARE GOING THROUGH.WE KEEP ALL OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS, AND HOPE ONE DAY SHANE AND JOSH WILL FINALLY BE RELEASED AND BACK AT HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY'S.STAY STRONG, TAKE CARE, AND GOD BLESS!!!! Jennifer Weiskopf Tim Messer: They meant no harm, they pose no threat, it's time you sent these two home. Janin Perry Friend Kyle COughenour: This is an abuse of power and for what some attention for the wrong reasons ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IRAN, you have gone off the deep end I hope you will be brought up on international crimainal charges if you dont immeaditly relase the other 2 hikers now and without further delay Margaret Foster Yasmin R: Please free these innocent youngsters. Sara Millman Anonymous Hibaq: to be stripped of one's freedom is one of the greatest punsihments of any person,animal, or organism as no one should be denied the right to walk without the fear of being put back into a box room. I pray that to look rather than an outsider into a situation imagine yourself as the individual who does not know when they will be with their family or people who care as whatever grudges you hold against a country politically you should not target a person from that country personally as it is not fair. Anonymous Anonymous: They are not spies and they should be immediately freed. How outrageous they can't even meet with their lawyers--this is no sense of fairness or good will on the Government of Iran's part. They should be released today. Anonymous Nicole Weiss: To Whom it May Concern: Please allow these two gentleman their freedom. They did not do anything to impose on your country on purpose. They are completely innocent. I beg of you to please free these 2 men. What is your reasoning for keeping them? They are innocent and miss their families. You are taking their precious lives from them. We want them back home here in the United States of America. Please reconsider your actions. Please free Shane and Josh. I pray that you do the right thing. Emily Taylor Samantha Port: Sarah, your strength is inspiring. I pray for the release of your friend and fiancee, and that the 3 of you and your families find peace in your lives soon. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Caitie Van Sloun Anonymous: Free the hickers asap Anonymous Sachiye Nakano Anonymous Anonymous Lucy Higgins Kariina Künnap jen kamerads Kim Langenhoven: Signing this from South Africa. Please free the two American Men Imprisoned in Iran. What happened to innocent until proven guilty, and clearly these boys are innocent!! Julia Rossouw: Pray for your safe return to your loved ones and a happy, healthy future!!! jermaine preston: free them Anonymous: Please free them. lisa payne: praying for the speedy release of Shane and Josh Nicola Eley Anonymous: Hi, please show some grace & mercy & release these young men, please! Geraldine: A political statement? This is no way to negotiate or to deal! mary c: I advocate for good relations and diplomacy with Iran, and a demonstration of compassion in this case would help to show that Iran can be reasonable and just. Christine Hebel Laura Bergang Jacin van der Linden: Please release the men and have them return to their families. Johannesburg, South-Africa Thys Lourens: Free The Hikers,They dont deserve to be there,its obvious they not guilty! Reunite them with there family..... Tamryn Hodgkinson Carin: I saw a program about the hikers on Oprah (we are a couple of months behind in seeing her shows here in South Africa). May Josh and Shane go home soon and may all of us in the world start sharing our commom humanity in peace and love. Anonymous: Free Them!!!!!!!!!!! I understand if the Iranian's are worried about having Spi's in their country. But it is so clear that these people are not a threaT! Both men are in my prayers. CR Brand Shaun Watson: I pray that you two will be released soon may God continue to guide & protect you both! We support you in South Africa! Zemmy Momoh: Please free these two innocent men. Nothing and no one is served by keeping them imprisoned and away from their loved ones. Thank you. John A. Cargo: Stop wasting your time. Let them go. Elzje van Rooyen: Please free Shane and Josh and let them return to their families. Hilary Bassett: Have just watched Sarah's interview with Oprah. Full of admiration for your spirit. I add my prayers to yours for the young men's early release. Christina Root: Come on Iran...step up to the plate and do what is right. The world is watching. Tom Adams: May God deliver you from bondage and set you free. Christina Hogan George Ferdinand Juliana Schnur: Praying for you... Michelle van zyl Daniel Haig Ben Nathan June Sparagna Kami Hinze Trudy Fanning Anonymous Anonymous Sandra Põld: Please let the hikers go. They were not spies. Their families miss them. dylan junier: Please let them go they have familys. Dont you? How would you feel if your didnt see your family for a year? Imprisoning them is cruel. Egerli Adamson: Shane and Josh should be released and sent home to America where they belong. They are both aspiring young people who could establish so much more if they could just be free. They're families need them and they need their families as well. Please release them to show out your good will and make the World a better place! Anonymous: Please free these innocent young people. Johanna Raudsepp: Set the innocent free. Have they harmed you in any way? No. So don't harm them. Let them go! Raija Niskanen Ramona Jeuschenak Anonymous Defne Anter Anonymous Heather Boscoe Karen C. Leigh Melanie Wilson Juanita Carroll Young: I hope that Shane and Josh are freed quite soon, and, until then, are in good health. Time to send them home, Iran! Anonymous traci Lambert-cwerenz: Please let them come home! Anonymous: Human Rights is not negotiable. These are innocent men. Allow them the justice. Nancy Goins: Please release Shane and Josh to their families and let them come home, they don't deserve this. My prayers go to them and their families and to the court system to do the right thing. Anonymous Anonymous: Do the right thing and release these men back to their families! Anonymous: please free shane and josh! from South Africa Staci Anderson: Please, please have a heart and release Shane and Josh. Let them live, love and experience all this world has to offer. Who are you to control the fate of another man for your own selfish agenda. cynthia Hoffman Michelle Treacy Natalie Graddon: I hope with all my heart you are released as soon as possible! Kavita Patel: Do not make innocent people suffer by using them as pawns in the political game. Anonymous Anonymous: This is such a horrific matter that 3 good people were detained while they were out on a hiking adventure. It is a shame that 2 of these 3 people are still detained with no right to speak to there families who miss them and not have adequate legal representation. Please allow these 2 men to be able to go home and be with there families. Brittany Fuentes: Being a lover of nature, an environmentalist, and an avid hiker myself, I hope with all of my heart that the Iranian government and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be able to understand the passion of our friends. Please let them come home! Bridget Hanna: It is unbelievable to me that they are still incarcerated. Please let them go, they've done nothing wrong! Alisha Karen Hale: I pray with all my heart for you all to come home safely and swiftly as soon as you can. I also pray for your family to stay strong for you all and that this petition will help with your freedom. Karen Hale EECKELAERT James Stephens Nyla Helgason: As a gesture of international peace and brotherhood, please let Shane and Josh go free. Richard Saylor: We are told that we can create our own reality, If that is so let us all imagine that they are set free NOW. And then pray that it is so. We LOVE you Shane & Josh, May Archangel Michael come to your aid this very moment to release you and protect you. All my Love, Richard April Allard: It is a cruel and unfair tragedy that Josh and Shane, having committed no crime, are still being detained in Iran with not one charge held against them. Please hear everyone's voices and see Josh and Shane for who they are...innocent citizens of a respectful world. Let them go...please! Anonymous Joanna Brucker Irene Rible Mark Westmoreland: I hope Josh and Shane will be able to rejoin their friends and families soon. katie: SEND THEM HOME!! Anonymous: After Sarah spoke at my school, my eyes have been opened on the urgent need for these two innocent men to be released. Joan Tyhurst: I heard Sarah speak tonight and witnessed history. Thank you, Sarah. I am praying for Shane and Josh. Scott A. Lhotka Anonymous Devin W. Daedelow Courtney Shari jaci bounds: Please let us bring our boys home! Jesús Altamira Lois Seaburg David Winser Anonymous Chris Low Sylvia Snell Anonymous Crystal McGarry: Please set them free!!! Derek Barnes: Nobody chooses what or where they are born into, nobody can change that. We all only breath on this Earth for a limited time....so please free them and let them enjoy theirs. Cathy Reggiardo Karen prince: I am so sorry for what has occurred and will do whatever I can to help free Josh and Shane. Jerry G Lee Michelle rimmer Rudika SARAH CARMODY Anonymous Anonymous Rachel Price: Please give these men their freedom! Blaire McPherson: This is an great opportunity for the Republic of Iran to demonstrate the mercy and compassion that are central tenets of the Islamic faith. Anonymous: supporting you guys from australia, all the best, i hope you are reunited with your family soon Richard Prince: I hope they get freed immediately! Tricia Larson Casey Nelson Jean: Please free these young men who are innocent and show the world you have compassion. Thank You. Noah: Josh and Shane will be released. Obama and Hillary Clinton need to kiss the Iranian presidents feet meaning flattery will go far. They need to try harder than they have to speak with the President of Iran and try to act friendly so we can free Josh and Shane. It's all politics at this point Mary Lee Morrison Sofia Jamison Anonymous Anonymous Anna Henderson: My wish for every soul on earth is freedom. Let us unite! and trust together, that we will all be free(d)!!! Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous John Foran cindy nickolay Marie Wallace: Hope they can get free very soon now. God bless them and their families for being so strong. Stine Østmoe MEG CUMMINS Klaus Layer Anonymous Justin Loar: The fact that in this day and age, people still resort to such barbaric and arbitrary treatment of innocent people is simply intolerable. This is more than a political quagmire, it's a damn right ethical injustice. Mindy Anna Fagan Azri Ahmad Dyann: The continuous confinement of these two innocent and obviously wonderful men is a political endeavor on behalf of the Iranian Government. In the time that your governement went through each of their belongings, there is no doubt that their innocence is known without question. These three persons in whom we speak of, two who are unjustly still held prisoner in Iran, are the unique types of people who you will not meet everyday. They care about other people and want to make a difference in this world; most only want to cast judgement and hatred. This was a clear violation and had these three not been lured onto Iranian land they never would have "wandered" there in the first place. Free All Three of Them, Human Life is Not A Playing Piece!! Show the World that Iran Still has a heart! Let's face it...why did your military motion them onto Iranian soil? Let them GO!! jodie mc donald Catherine Wilson: Please release these innocent people. I understand that guilty people should be imprisoned but these people are innocent. Please do the right thing and show compassion and look at the evidence and let them return home to their families. Our prayers are with you to make the right decision and with the three innocent prisoners. Please release them. David Baum Kirsi Korttinen Katie: Enough is Enough...this needs to end!!! Free Josh and Shane! Sarah, Shane, and Josh, I will never forget you any of you!!!! Anonymous Jenny Voorhaar Anonymous Anonymous Lilian: Please let them free Anonymous: I hope shane and josh will be released!!!They deserve to be free again. They have suffered enough for something that was a misunderstanding. Lynn: i hope this will end well! i just saw this on an old oprah winfrey show. Good luck! support from the netherlands! Anonymous Barbara Zoe Malon: Please let Josh and Shane come home!!!! We support you in The Netherlands! Sandra Slegers: I wish Josh and Shane their 1/3 of FREEDOM EACH......so that they, together with Sarah become 3/3 again and ALL BE TRULY FREE! liadain kaminska Lavaughn Morris jr.: I hope Shane and Josh the best. The day will not come soon enough when we see them walk off the plane back in their families arms. You are in our hopes and prayers. Sheri DElia: It is already inhumane how long these young men have been kept captive without a trial. We treat criminals better. Josh, Sarah, and Shane are so obviously innocent. This is not making Iran look like a place to visit.... ever. Laura Hayes Anonymous Darcy Delaproser: FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER & JOSH FATTAL DETAINED IN IRAN FOR TOO LONG—PLEASE FREE ALL THREE! Anonymous Natalie Marlies Dorien Anonymous M.v.R Anne van den Berg Sebastiaan de Waal Emilia Mantadakis: SEND SHANE AND JOSH HOME WHERE THEY BELONG!!! Natasja Lammers Ismene Straver: lots of good thoughts from Amsterdam, hope it will all work out for the best soon. stacey busman Annemarie Baas: Please send the boys home. There is no reason for detaining them. Kim Anonymous Ruby: Free the hikers it is ridiculous to keep them in prison, they are innocent and should get the change to go on with their lives Rosemarijn Bos Paola Esther Severijns Esmeralda from Holland: Please free Shane and Josh! Much love and prays from the Netherlands Debby: From Holland: this is crazy, release Josh and Shane!! Jilke Jansen Anonymous: PLease free all the hikers. Saw this story on Oprah Winfrey Bart: I just saw the interview with Sarah on the Opera Winfrey show in The Netherlands. I sign this becasue I hope they will get released soon! They have done nothing wrong and got involved in something that has nothing to do with them! RELEASE THEM NOW! d.peters Anonymous Sarina Gitoroemakso: Holding people illegally is not right. Please free shane and josh!!! i find it ridiculous....holding 3 people for accused reasons is a poor excuse for revenge. FREE ALL THREE!!!! Jody Wagner: Just saw The Oprah show, from the Netherlands. What a terrible story! Anonymous: let them free. they have done nothing wrong. They are not spies, they are walkers. How would you feel if you are held harmless. Be human, listen to your heart and not your mind. powered by Froukje Sanberg: Holland (europe) supports you!!! Good luck!!!! Anonymous Anonymous Rita: I was just watching Oprah, on the show the president of Iran said that America has captured a couple of innocent Iranians, that is probebly the main reason why they will not free Shane and Josh. This means that WE are getting punished for something the gouvernment is doing.There are so many crimanals out there hurting people, these people are free. Then we have Shane and Josh two angels send on earth enjoing our planet by going to the most beautiful places in the world to tell people about! and the are kept held for the gift that God gave to them. Its easy to ask for there freedom, but it takes real courage in this time of life to let Shane and Josh go back to there families an continiu the life that God gave to them. And Sarah, You are free for a reason and thats to keep on talking about waht happend to all of you in the media until your last breath. You're a Strong woman and i would like to send you my guardian Angel to watch over you and give you the strenght to keep on fighting! God Bless You! Robert Spill van Hoek: A message from The Netherlands, Europe. Ask any parent on this world to write his or her version of God’s Ten Commandments it would forbid any person to hurt children especially because of the sake of politics. I plead to my fellow parents, the politicians of both states, to free these children. You’re no good to us if you don’t. Lead by example that’s why you’re in office. Patti Aker Abby: Please free Josh and Shane!!!! Anja Bonnes: Please free Shane en Josh! It's time to do so. Anonymous: No innocent person should be imprisoned. Sandy Klaver Kathy Truman Michael McCaw Michael Drzyzga: I can't believe they still aren't home. 600+ days! Ridiculous. Why isn't this in the news more?! Rachel Sturke Anonymous Kathryn S. King: Enough!! Set them free!!!! Mary John Jeremy Ward naama cohen Melissa Running Alexandra Schneider Jonathan Piedimonte Michael Keyes Kellie Perreira: Please send these people home to their beloved families!! May god be with you!! Larry Carr: 2 years us too long. Free Shane and Josh now. Anonymous: Please show humanitarian compassion and release Shane and Josh so they can return to their families. Erika Jackila Holly Bellocchio Durso Arthur Huppert: Having seen Thaddeus Phillips' performance today on 18 Border Crossings which featured an appearance by Laura Fattal, I was reminded of the absurdities of the world and how its insane that Shane and Josh are still in detention. Nadine: Please release them. Nadine (from The Netherlands) Anonymous Adam L. David Hoffman Kristin Carey Anonymous John: Always in my prays.... Think as if these were your children... Do what should have already been done. Anonymous Airlie Rob Everett: Please let these wonderful folk go. Anonymous: I am praying for their release. Mr A Philpott Dan Seidel: Time to join the group of civilized nations and end the religious stuff - Iran - FREE THE HIKERS!!! OBPama will probably let yours go in return. It's a stupid game. Loudi Pot: I'm from Holland and I saw the story on Oprah and i wanted to do something te help. So i signed te petition. I hope they are going te be released very soon!! dona koshowany: Please let these two young men return home to their families and loved ones. Megan Masarsky Anonymous: Release these two man and let them go home. Shane and Josh the people are still thinking of you both. Laure Maertens: I'm from Belgium and I just saw the story on The Oprah Winfrey show. I hope Josh and Shane will be released soon. They are innocent good people who don't deserve this Anonymous Lisa Bartoletti: Thank you for your time and consideration. james regan marcella l. Renate Rød Terri fylling: Please Free Shane and Josh they have committed no crime, they deserve to be free and home in the USA with there family,s Marianne Log Anonymous: i hope that shane and josh will be released as fast as possible and in good shape. i also want to send my regards to their family and friends. it breaks my heart that people just wanting to experience the world and other cultures are treated like this when they didnt even know that they broke the law, and were inside iran. Anonymous: All of humanity suffer whenever innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned. Please free Josh and Shane. Tone Vik Anonymous Teresa Silva: Please show compassion and human dignity towards these two young men and their families, enshāllāh’ Anonymous Anonymous Christina Seljestad Rachel Jones Anonymous: Thinking of you both- Puck Susanne Restemayer Negar Ghorbanpor: innocent people should not be confined to a prision. Anonymous cali Debbie Beenau: We need to ree shane and Josh immediately. Fredrik Johansson Karin jennie Andersson: You have to free the hikers!!!! This is cracy! I will pray for them! Yours sincerely Jennie Andersson Anonymous: The whole arrest is ridiculos and shameful. Just goes to show what happens when you have a non-functioning goverment. It's time for Iran to do what is right // A, Sweden. Gunilla Yksnöy, Sweden: Please free them, they are young and they have done nothing wronge. Allison Eriksson Kinga Dukaj Anonymous: Please release them. Anna Cecilia Anderson: Please let these two men come home to their families again! Catarina Hagman: Can't believe this! Just heard about it today on an old Oprah show. Sweden hopes and prays for Josh and Shane´s freedom. Mika Sandell Anonymous: This is... out of words... Please FREE THE HIKERS! Caroline Eriksson: Sweden Erica: Pleadings all the way from Sweden: Release Josh and Shane, please!! Its frightening that innocent people have to suffer for what is going on between the government in the world. End this now and show some humanity! Andreas Karolin Jenny Eustace: I saw this on the Oprah show today in Sweden and when I went to the website I coudl not believe that they had not yet been released! Never give up hope and keep fighting the good fight. Faye Antonia Hays Karin Hampe Petra: I´m from Sweden and i heard about this terrible case on Oprah show, I hope that people all over the world takes action. Please release Josh and Shane! Anonymous Rick Trent The Savage Family: Namaste, Light, Love and Peace to you. This will end soon....! Eleni Bratanis Clay Chabot: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil...is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke - 1751 Melissa Whalen: Please free these innocent people soon. Olivia Kemp Anonymous Anonymous Nicole Carey Sarah Bassett Milo Tupy: Please let them come home Evelyn Melancon Sara McDonald: Please know you're all being thought of and that I'm sending positive energy your way. I believe that people can and do change. This has gone on for far too long. I hope that someone, somewhere who has the "authority" to release Shane and Josh do so and do so quickly! Debby Handler: Josh is part of are family and he did not no he was trespassing.I dont see why you still have him in jail!!! Greg Banecker Sean Westrupp Anonymous Janja Jančar Marjana Bažato Anonymous Sanja Vidic: It's unbelivable that this is still going on! Wasn't it enough already? FREE ALL THREE! Best wishes to them from Slovenia. Whole world is with you guys. Ann-Kristin Otnes: Please release them! Anonymous Neža Perovšek Anonymous: Free Josh and Shane Now - they belong at home, with their families and friends! They deserve Freedom and Justice and they are both innocent. Marguerite Apprill Sinclair Evan Silver A.T. Flournoy Jennifer Lucking: Please allow Shane and Josh to come home. We are thankful that Sarah is released and safe, but I still wait and hope for the day Shane and Josh are released. lynda johnson Debra Nestor: We need to get these boys home. They, like so many other Americans love to explore our world. They appreciate and respect different cultures and love the people of this world for these differences. The US government, as well as other governments around the world need to step in and help end this injustice. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because allowing people to be falsely imprisoned hurts tourism, which will ultimately hurt so many people that survive off tourism. Let's do what we need to do to get these young men home. Trip Attaway Andrea Howard Anonymous: Please uphold your moral and legal duty to release these prisoners Chris S Anonymous Lolita Fernandes Robert L Mitchell: Thank You for freeing Sarah, it shows you have good in your heart, let it be further expressed by freeing Shane & Josh as soon as possible. MacKenzie Smith Anonymous: The world needs more people like Shane and Josh...please free them! Cindy Schneider: The world is watching. Do the right thing. Let them go. Christian Sargent: My peaceful prayer is to The Supreme of Iran Ali Khamenei and the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to remember what Jesus said: "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" and again, "If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent." These young men are innocent and are not your enemies. Please send them home so that you in your mercy will be greatly honored, respected, and rewarded by God Almighty. Cindy (from The Netherlands): Please let Shane and Josh go! Julie Manciagli Stephanie Manciagli Kyle Shook: If I can help at all please let me know Ann Anonymous Rael lawrence Bruce Manciagli Carolina Crescenzi Sarah Anonymous: When is this going to end? Shane and Josh are innocent and do not deserve to be in prison. Free Shane and Josh Shane Manciagli L. B. Simona Anonymous irina stanica: free the two young people! Lindsay Halliwell: Set them free! Rachel Hoglund Anonymous: As a hiker who has gone into the wilderness, I know how hard it is to stay on a trail. It must be even harder in the area where these three were detained. No American will ever want to go near Iran after this incident if this is how you treat innocent people who are simply traveling. Hyacinth Burt: Please show compassion and mercy. Edward Poranek: They're hikers, tarvellers, former volunteers, no spies. Let them go home. Regine Masson: In the name of Peace please relaese these two guys ,they done nothing wrong they just care for a better world and envoirrement Heather Crippen Ashley Attaway Sheri Giardini Samantha Strimling: It is ridiculous that they are still detained. They are innocent. Not only is it know that they are not spies, but a July 31 report leaked to WikiLeaks revealed that even the US government knew from witnesses present at the time of the detainment that the hikers were on the Iraq side of the Iran border when Iranian officials crossed the boarder to detain the hikers. Furthermore, no act of spying justifies the type of human rights abuses inflicted on the hikers, which include at least possibly cancer and depression for Shourd. Free the hikers! joanne robson Anonymous Meghan Ryder Gabby: They deserve to be free! much strengh ... Russell M Wright: Shame! Shame! Shame! When someone crosses our border on accident, we feed them lunch and put them on a bus for home. What's up? Anonymous Assaf Pashut: Thank you. urszula trudnos Mallory Chisholm Michal Rizowy: I met Joshes mother at the 42 mile bike tour in NYC ... I will do anything to help get both Shane and Josh home safe! I watched all videos on the home page and cried, you guys are so strong! They will soon be home! They are in are hearts. Cellie Pardoe Uzai Cordero Anna Schneggenburger Gilien Silsby Anonymous Rick Kitagawa: It is absurd that these two innocent men are still held captive. Please be sensible and human and send these two home. Anonymous Dave Cowell: Blatant misunderstanding, flexing one's muscles to make yet another antijournalist statement. Espionage? Be realistic. If anyone takes these allegations seriously... The trial is imminent, please proceed fairly... Anonymous Anonymous Britanny Deane: It breaks my heart that these men have still not been released. jacob melman Veronica Horn Simone: There is no reason to keep these people in jail. ally maxwell Jane B: Please free these men and show your good will to the world!!! Dawn Brown Anonymous: Please release the hikers, US officials please step in. Alicia: If prosecutors showed No evidence..Why are they still detained???Please free the us hikers Anonymous: Please allow the return of Josh and Shane to their loved ones. Kyle Packer Anonymous Judy Stone Anonymous Anonymous Richard Meyer Daniel Sanchez: Please Conner Roberts Jamie Blackburn Jennifer Chan: Please free them, they are innocent people. Debra De Bode: Please think of these young people as you would your own sons and daughters. You can understand that they meant no harm to Iran. Freeing them is the right thing to do. Roana Collepardo: Please release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal Annie Storey: Please free these poor men. Please. My hearts goes out to them. I believe in them. They can get through this. They're going to get through this. Anonymous Arlene Kukacka Eric Hartley Katie Lisa Farley Neal Reid: please help these folks...try to put yourselves in their shoes. Anonymous daniel baker: These are just kids who got caught up in a political chess game. Do the right thing & let them go. Scott Johnson Gabriela Maurier Bernadette Evangelist david griola: i am asking the iranian government in their infinite wisdom to allow the release of the two american hikers.Whatever dispute you have with the american government please do not make these two innocent victims pawns. mikamg@comcast.net Anonymous Anonymous: In the name of humanity, I beseech you to release these young men, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. In this case of unfortunate circumstance, I ask that the government of Iran show mercy and reasoned compassion by immediately relinquishing these young men to their families and countrymen. Their continued imprisonment cannot result in any substantive benefit to any, but their swift emancipation can mean a great deal not only to them but to the rest of the free world and those who love freedom. Bill Davis Geri Modell: Please free these innocent young people! Anonymous: Please send them home. Anonymous Kathryn Little George Echenhofer Lawrence Regan Cheryl Stevenson: Please let these kids go. In this case they are clearly just hikers. No governments should use kids as pawns in their political games. Iran should do better. Anonymous Dan King: You should think this through and let them go. Your lack of care will catch up to you. Let them go and go home to your family. Prior US ARMY- USMC Vipul Seth: I urge the Iranian Govt to use common sense Anonymous Ross Lockridge Kirk Snavely Doris Soroko: 'Fondly do we hope and fervently do we pray' that Iranian government will express its capacity for mercy and provide immediate release for the hikers. Respectfully, Gregorio Altamirano: I wish to give my support in the hopes that Shane and Josh will be released without further delays. It is clear that there has been some drastic mistake made and I wish that this can be used in the end to further good relations between Iran and the rest of the world including the United States. Too much animosity has been spread through the press about this and other events and it is time for it to stop with this gesture of good will. Brian Ritter Anonymous: Our thoughts and actions of a positive ending to this terrible mistake will result in the release of Josh and Shane. Keep up the faith! Aaron Sullivan Yaron Pardo: allow humanity to guide this decision. Shane and Josh, as well as the many others wrongfully detained within your borders must be liberated. Disregarding this call to action will, without a doubt, compromise future cooperation among nations and will not be limited to humanitarian dispute- economic, agricultural, and political prosperity begin with our ability to combat our fears and open our minds. Richard Carver: Say no to war Anonymous: Best of luck and return safe Pete Dabrowski Mike Q Chase Pugh: In the name of peace, justice, and humanity, please free the innocent American hikers. Enough Iranian and international laws have been violated for no apparent reason. Anonymous Barbara Hanst: The eyes of the world are upon you as Josh and Shane come to trial. Help us believe you are just and compassionate. Phillip Dwight Morgan Nicole Cathcart Diane Duncan Charles Rawls: In the name of the Compassionate One I implore the courts of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cease persecuting the innocent. These three hikers may have unknowingly strayed across the unmarked border, but they are not spies and they should have all espionage charges dropped and be released immediately. The longer these men are held the worse your nation appears to the rest of the world. Heidi Cunningham Kristina Jordan: It is a sign of a great nation to show compassion and understanding when bringing young people to trial who are harmless and who had absolutely no intent or ability to harm your nation. Iran is a great nation and so it is only right that Iran release these innocent hikers. Stuart Hershon Joe Victor Robert J. Marchetti: I stand with all three of you! Anonymous evan nesterak Joe Faris: We all look for your humanity. Barbara Aureli Katherine Stasiek Anonymous Sandra Leyva Mark Dudley: I sincerely hope that they are rightfully freed soon. Brandon Johnson: With solidarity comes hope. Diana Dorer: To the Islamic Republic of Iran: Please do not punish these young, caring souls because of the often nefarious policy of the U.S. government. Shane, Sarah and Josh are loving, sentient beings who sympathize with those who suffer everywhere. Please let them get on with their lives so they can help improve the lives of others. Please don't let them languish away. Please save their lives. Damien Smyth Anonymous: Human persons are not commodities and they are not political game pieces unless someone makes them as such. You therefore have the opportunity to make a meaningful and positive change for the world by releasing these innocent men in addition to Sarah; please do so. Lynne Barry Adam O\'Callaghan Carl Wingo Charles Fredricks: Persecution of the obviously innocent always backfires; the only political motive it serves is to discredit those who abuse their power. Sheila McShane: FREE THEM NOW! The world out here needs them back! Julie Carlson: The US and Iran have the chance to be on the side of justice! Drop the bogus charges and free Shane and Josh now! Rebecca Lemons: Please do what is moral and right. Let them go. You are not gaining anything by detaining them. There is no justice in this imprisonment. Todd Shapera Liese Jones Martina Newberry: Shane, Sarah and Josh are innocent of any crime and, as Amnesty International reports, their extended pre-trial detention is a violation of Iranian and international law. Their detention is arbitrary and inhumane and we call on the Iranian authorities to show Shane and Josh the same compassion they have shown Sarah and release them without further delay. Raluca Balan Dan Parziale: Please respect international human rights and release Shane and Josh from custody and drop all charges. Anonymous: Free these innocent men and let them return to the good works they were doing with their lives before this case. Joanne Engelking Amanda Lawrence Carly Singleton Mary Anglin Rob Thomas Catherine Cox: My prayers and thoughts are with the hikers and their families Anonymous Anonymous: what's taking so long? Anonymous: Please do the right thing by freeing these two innocent young men. How would you feel if these were your own sons? Nazli Fulton Kasey Gallucci: Imagination is the ultimate expression of freedom. To Josh and Shane, who are bold enough to imagine a better world, and courageous enough to pursue their vision through education and non-violence. We all are here for you.I look forward to the day when you are both free, when you can rejoin us, in the struggle to make the world a more peaceable and equitable place for all. Anonymous: hiking is not a crime! Arnie Harris: Thes epeople are INNOCENT!! Let them go!! Andre Foisy Bonnie Watt gudrun sperrer: PLEASE DO FINALLY RELEASE SHANE AND JOSH AND SHOW THE WORLD YOU CAN BE COMPASSIONATE Nour Abdul-Razzak Dave Eaton Lina Carro Gerald Iversen mahir mohammed: I just came across this story on democracy now and I'm completely outraged and appauled at the lack of US government involvment in this case. My most sincerest condolences to Sarah, Josh, Shane and their families. Mahir mohammed BC, Canada Carla Melenberg Jessica Camacho: Please free these innocent people so they can move forth and make a difference in the world. Anonymous Douglas Neiss Anonymous Trisha Beltz Anonymous Robbi Lankin: FREE SHANE ANS JOSH ASAP.....WE ALL ARE AWAITING THEIR RIGHT TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM AND A SAFE RETURN TO THEIR LOVED ONES AND FAMILIES. joseph w doolin Scott R. Gerber Daniel Pray Kay Georgia Williamson Travis Edgar Cheri Trettin: Please release the hikers. We need all our peace keepers to help fight the American Military Industrial Complex. Dawn Jones Harry Salzberg Justin Tweet amanda moore Lee Liddle Anonymous Mark J. Boulette: Detention for this extented time without contact is inhumane and unusually cruel. I call upon the Iranian government to display compassion and send Shane and Josh home to the USA. Thank you. Bruce O\'Brien: Please free these innocent people. Nardia Keenan Jackie Schmid Edward Schmid Anonymous: Please release the hikers. Tracey Witherspoon Benoit Azagoh-Kouaido: Harm not, especially unto those who have done you no harm. Igor Cerny: The US government has inflamed the Arab world due to its singular focus on oil. Please do not make these 3 pawns in this terrible situation. Set them free and show the world that the government of Iran will not act the villan that the US says you are. Vikram Rangala Patti Batchelder: Please free Josh and Shane. They are peaceful people. If some of our politicians were more like them America would not be fighting any wars. Anonymous Anonymous: Please free the hikers as it is quite evident that they are innocent. Fred Bloom William J Watkins Lisa J Watkins Johann Bruhn Erin McAuley Diane Chorney Joanna Zilsel Justin Taylor: please free them!! Anonymous Mandy Watkins Carolyn Wilcox Maryann Gianantoni Vladimir Strugatsky: Peace and love to Iranian people Kellie Russell: This is absurd... Craig Johnson Jonathan Vogel: Freilassung der Gesellen! Nik Hermann: I do not believe american spies would behave or look like that, if they would, Iran would have nothing to worry about... therefore release them! Solidarity from Austria Katelyn Gallucci Taka Ono Anonymous: I respectfully ask the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention as soon as possible and allow them to return home to their families, and to free Sarah Shourd from any violation of Iranian and International law. Please show compassion to these beautiful peace activists. Brett Williams RP Bostick Paul Ronco Anonymous: What kind of country imprisons innocent foreigners? Anonymous Emily Rath Meryem: I hope they will all be free soon, all the support from Morocco... Anonymous: Holding the hikers is shameful and makes you appear deranged and pitiful. Anonymous Anonymous Diana Anonymous Dr. Stuart Chen-Hayes: It is time to set Shane and Josh free. They have made an innocent mistake and no international law supports their being held for this length of time. Debra Howson Anonymous: One of the legitimate complaints against the United States government is that they have held innocent people in detention under extremely cruel conditions. As you know, this has caused us to lose respect and influence all over the world. Iran doing the same will bring the same result. How can keeping innocent Americans further Iran's goals or standing in the world? Natalie Anaya Anonymous Balazs Horvath Andrea Cohen Hughes Keyvan Iraniha: Salaam Iranian Government, I want to start by saying that I am a supporter of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. I used to be athiest but after visiting my Grandmother and Uncle in Iran I took interest in the Islamic religion and Alhamdullilah reverted to Islam and help teach Islam to little kids at the Masjid here in San Diego. I believe Islam is the religion of compassion and mercy, and we should learn from Allah's mercy to be merciful upon others. I think you guys know that these hikers are innocent and you are keeping them more for political reasons. If this is the case, then it would be understandable if they agreed to stay to help Iran make this political statement, but if they didn't agree and you are holding them against their will then wouldn't this be considered Haram? I understand the U.S is doing the same things, but you cannot let them bring you down to their level. Our Prophet and Imam's would not approve of this dealing, these people have homes and families and you are separating them and dragging on their trial for over a year now. These people are on our side when it comes to Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I am sure they would be fighting for Iran as well if they saw the true compassion that Islam is known for only if Iran was truely implementing that compassion onto the people. We all have very short lives and we will all be judged for what we do individually.. Inshallah you will not only release the activists, but help them in their struggle to bring about world peace. Ask yourself, if Imam Mahdi (A.F) came what would he do in the case of the hikers? If you say that He would keep them, then I say you are obligated to keep them, but if you say that He would release them then I say you are obligated to release them. JazakAllah Khair, Keyvan Iraniha Viren Deshpande: They deserve freedom! Ani Jilozian Dieter: Please send these people home, dear Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr. Toni Lyn Morelli Douglas Fresch II Mandy: This got lost from the public view Mary Westheimer Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous: we must all pray together to God for their release. David Krolick: It is my understanding that the hikers were in Iraq. Additionally, had they been spies certainly it is clear that the woman would have been dressed appropriately to be in Iran. Please free the two young men that have been in prison in Iran for too long already. Respectfully, D.Krolick Matthew Allen Anonymous: In this day and age, it is sometimes important to just trust. These hikers found beauty in the landscape in Iran and chose to enjoy your country. Are you going to punish everybody who wants to appreciate a little scenery in some other part of the world? Releasing the hikers will only do you good. They are only humans who have done you no harm. FREE THEM! Elliot Stoller kristen hubbard: Please release these young people who are harboring no ill will towards anyone - do not let them used for political gain; it is detrimental to all concerned. Nino Grillo Jeanne Heyman Amanda Woolever Scott Musgrove MaryAnne Dumont Benjamin Buchanan Shari Harris Anonymous: I have had the pleasure and humbling privilege of experiencing Iranian hospitality first-hand. Reading about Shane and Josh, I find it very difficult to reconcile my experience of Iran with the situation that they find themselves in. My memory of Iran is of a place where people are kind, generous, welcoming and caring; family is treasured. I hope these qualities can prevail in the case of Shane and Josh so that they can return to their loved ones. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Jodee Bihl Anonymous: Detention is absurd---counter to all ethical, moral, international legal standards. Continued detention is also counter-productive to any "image" Iran is hoping to project to the world. The longer the two men are held the more ludicrous Iran appears. "Afraid" of hikers in Iraq? Illogical! Anonymous Skip Pass Amy Rosefield Kimbro Urania Hunter Raymond Tarpley: It is my hope that the Iranian authorities will take the opportunity to demonstrate their humanity by releasing Josh and Shane, as they did Sarah, all of whom had come to the Middle East on good faith to make humanitarian contributions themselves that would serve the people in that region. Hospitality to people of good will is legendary in the Middle East among both Arabs and Iranians, and it is regrettable to have that historical reputation tarnished in this way. Governments may differ, but all citizens everywhere should be as one. Anonymous Anonymous Eduardo Castro Fonseca Anonymous Therese I. Cauchon: I fully support the request to the Iranian government to release Shane and Josh = Plan A. Plan B: Negotiate a trade for Iranians held in detention/prison under the United States' jurisdiction. Eugenia Nova: I know the Iranian government and officials are looking out for the truth and trying to do the best, I trust they'll find it and act accordingly dana LORI BURMAN Lindsay May Dannesh Alam Nivedan Bharadwaj: Like India, Iran is a very old peaceful & powerful culture based on just & moral values. I urge the Government of Iran to release the 2 hikers who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Anonymous Maria Pintar Anonymous Christen Denney: It is immoral and evil to play games with innocent people's lives. Carrie Pawloski Rachel Hyman peter meissner: Is this what the revolution in 1979 was supposed to be about? Firing on your own people, imprisonment, rape, torture. Set all political prisoners free. Ethan: This act will not go unpunished. We are citizens of the United States of America. We will stand up and fight for our brothers and sisters. We must spread the word and have everyone stand up to any and all tyrants. Iran is finding its few ways to punish America, we must not let any type of act be done to our citizens. Spread this word, we must reach EVERYONE. Congress, the House, and especially our Commander in Chief. Obama must not let this go on any longer. We as HUMANS have rights, and these rights are being pushed aside because Iran has a grudge. Any logical person would be able to figure this out. 3 people, with no "spying" gear, no knowledge of any borders, no REASON what so ever to spy, and why would we spy mountains and tourist locations? Hey Iran, we have million dollar planes the size of German Shepard's that can spy better then 30 men, let alone 3. 647 days is more than long enough to prove this is childish. Iran, you are violating global laws and human rights. No matter what road you take, we as a people will rise up and justice will be met. America will always stand by its people, no matter how far or what circumstance. Especially the innocents. Spread the word. We must not let Iran have their way with one of us! Richard Seabury: May these three individuals be found to be the justice-seeking individuals that they are - not spies. May The Islamic Republic's justice show the world fairness. May this be so. Ronnie Kauffman Nadia Jamal Anonymous Tracy Phillips: My thoughts and prayers continue to be with you. God Bless you guys! Be strong. Mary Hagen: Please release Josh and Shane to their families! Samantha Joseph: Please show compassion and relsease Josh and Shane, innocent of the crimes for which they are accused. Deborah Bell: Many in our world are watching this story and are hopeful for the release of these two men who have only peaceful intentions in our world! Phil Rohrer Ted: As Baretta once said, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." These 2 so-called 'hikers' violated the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As such, they are fully liable under the laws of the Republic. If 2 Iranians had been 'hiking' around a sensitive US military installation, for instance, without a valid visa or authorization, they would be detained and held under the terms of The Patriot Act. And rightfully so! Why should anyone expect the 2 Americans to get some special treatment?? Anonymous Michele Ferri madison bates Connie Cuadrado Kathleen Sweeney Anonymous: There is no reason for this detainment. The Iranian government must know this. Please release these two innocent men. Judie Cervenka: Please release these two young men back to their families. They have been imprisoned way too long Adam Breneman William Blodgett: This is a travisty of justice, how would you feel if your friends or family were hiking in America at the Grand Canyon and they were arrested by the military. For something has simple as stepping over a unclear line in the sand, and then they were thrown in a prison of horrible conditions and denied justice because there is a RUMOR about them being connected to an organization that they never we're a part of, and had no ties to what so ever! Think about it.'come to your senses, and set them FREE! Sandra Johnson alex: bring the boys back home )))))))O Jeff Meadows Jen Ferro Diane Walsh Jody Beck R Pearce Sally Frankental Anonymous Glenda de la Fuente Cassie DeFillipo Rev.Sr Faustina Marsha Green: Please do not allow this abuse of human rights to continue. Free the innocent hikers. Anonymous Anonymous: We are supporting and praying for you that regime will come to it's senses and release you both. Natacha Sella Ann Songayllo Brian Ticoll annie davidson Phillip Gohary Amy Hart Virginia McClain carole de Nola May Cheung Anonymous Anonymous: Free the HIKERS. They are hiker not terrorists or spy's. elisabeth howland: open life. Jahd Burns: I implore you to free these two men who have helped our world in so many ways and upon release can continue to do so. Imprisonment without a valid cause is unjust and can only lead to harsher criticism of your republic’s integrity and justice. Let them go home and live a free life as I am sure you yourself are doing every day. A person only lives once, don’t take away their one chance to live. Let them live their lives to the fullest, full of love and compassion with their friends and family where they belong. Alex julia naman Adam Elg Anonymous Anonymous: Please release Josh and Shane. Katherine Camp: Curiosity about the world is not a crime. Tony Huie: My prayers are with each of the families and the hikers. It's so sad that they are being used as pawns in a purely political game. I hope Iran finally admits they are innocent and releases them so they can come home soon! William M. Sanders: Freedom is the right of all law abiding human beings. I call on Iran to PROVE that it has an ounce of human decency and dignity, by granting our fellow Americans their freedom. As a fellow American, I will say this of Josh and Shane the mantra of P.O.W.s..."You are not forgotten." Sadie Robins-Murov steven goldman Alexander Grant: While it is time for the Americans and the Iranians to normalize relations and to work together in harmony to protect and promote all human rights, it is also time that these recreational hikers be released from prison and allowed to return to their families. Free Josh and Shane. Thank you. Sonia Riddall Kathy Scharbarth Adam Turner Louise Strauss Bernice Reisman: Love your brothers as you love yourself.....let them go home. Griffin Dolan: America will destroy Iran. Danielle Myers P Bear: We need a president with balls to get these two hikers released, like Pres. Regan did. virginia mike: Please let them go this is insane. They have commited no crime. My heart goes out to family David Lance Dryden: My prayers go out to them both and their families Daniel Cole Jones: We are all sons & daughters of Abraham, let it be commonality that unites us to discuss & resolve our world together as one. There is only one. There can only be one. Let's share this foundation so that many works may be built from its cornerstone. Amen. Love YOU ALL! Daniel Anonymous Matt Holden Mike Bender: Has the U.S. Government become like a bunch of cowards? We are a Super Power, we need to start acting like it. DEMAND their return NOW! President Obama needs to act like a man and a leader, stop kissing the a.. of other nation leaders and show them when we mean business. Anonymous Tania Calderón Louis Michelle Mizner Javier Buj Anonymous: You have my heartfelt support Mira Rashad sharon Anonymous Suzie Stevenson: Please release Josh and Shane. Anonymous Robert J. Wolfe: As an Eagle Scout with hiking as a Merit Badge, this has gone on long enough, BRING THEM HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES. Alex Robb Anonymous: Please free the hikers in this unfortunate misunderstanding. Pamela Treadway: I pray that they will be released. I hope their health and welfare hold up, and that of their family and friends, as they all endure this tragedy. Valerie Arrico-Gould: I hope they are freed soon I hope they will show compassion...I believe they are innocent & wiil continue to pray they come home safe. Anonymous Melissa McCarthy Patty O\'Gorman: Do your part in helping to bring peace to the world. Please, release the hikers they are innocent of any wrong doing. Kimberly Neal Carol Fellman: Please release these two young man. They made a mistake and have suffered enough. They meant no harm. Anonymous Anonymous: My heart goes out to these young men and their families. May God bless them and protect them. Brenna Foster Feeley Margaret M. Soulstein Anonymous Ann Stacey chrisitne Mara Armstrong: I respectfully ask you to show the same compassion toward Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the American hikers the Islamic Republic of Iran has detained since July 31, 2009 after they reportedly crossed an unmarked border from Iraq into Iran, that you have shown to Sarah Shourd by releasing her on bail. It is now over one year since Shane and Josh have been detained. They mean no harm to the Islamic Republic of Iran and do not deserve to be detained any longer. We are deeply concerned for their health and well-being. We are also deeply concerned that they continue to be denied their right to meet with their Iranian lawyer, regular contact with their families and regular consular visits. The only mistake these young travelers may have made was to lose their way during a hiking vacation. I quote the words of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in urging the Iranian authorities to release Shane and Josh: “It is difficult to escape the conclusion that (Shane and Josh) continue to be held because they are Americans and not for any legal reason. I urge the Iranian authorities not to deny them their freedom in order to express their discontent with the United States. Nations have a right to disagree but their citizens should not be made to pay the price of their differences.” Respectfully, Mara Armstrong Anonymous: My heart goes out to Shane & Josh. Please bring them home soon and safely. May God Bless them and help them thru their solitude and all other means of torment they must be enduring. Brian Freel: Please free the hikers Carolyn Miller Anonymous Anonymous: it is the right thing to do Kathryn Snyder Cami Coke Anonymous ally cao celeste martha johnston Mr. & Mrs. Joe Hancock Anonymous: Send these people home. Their lives are wasting away on a crime never committed. I'm living each day for their release. Shane and Josh won't ever be the same after this horrible event. BRING HOME OUR INNOCENT MEN! AMERICA IS COUNTING ON YOU, SHANE AND JOSH!! Trudy Crow Nash: I just can not believe that they are still imprisoned. It's a terrible thing and it has to end. Leslie Huys Anonymous: I pray for peace and good-will between our countries and freedom for these remarkable young men. Anthony Willey: END THE UNLAWFUL AND INHUMANE IMPRISONMENT OF JOSH AND SHANE NOW! David Harris Gina Wisotzky Jane Fosse: Please free Shane and Josh, they deserve to be with the people who love them back here. I think of them daily and hope they know how many people care about them Anonymous Anonymous: This is unfair and something has to be done get those boys home praying that angels would surround them and protect them!! Anonymous kevin f: let them go Janine Talis louis Kathy Teti: Take politics out of innocent peoples lives. IrishGirl929: prayers go out to all Amy Gross Joe Behm Tom Devereaux Sean Patrick O\'Connor Anonymous: Free them now!! Fabrice Agbadan: We all want the three to be home on U.S soil but we must all H o p e.... H O P E ! Anonymous: Having found no evidence of espionage or spying equipment-wouldn't it be a tremendous show of humanity to release these young people. They have certainly paid a deep price for their indiscretion-not knowing they illegally crossed a border. Anonymous Emily Fisher Meagan Robinson Alison D.Lopez Gary Scott Cohen Deanna Molly Green Kenneth Kline: Free the Americans!!! Anonymous Anna McKinsey Jay Grossman: The Iranians once again have shown themselves to be arrogant, vindictive and duplicitous. They will follow the footsteps of the Hitlers, Stalins and bin Ladens of history -- flashing moments of intense evil and destruction, leaving victims as they disappear into the past. Anonymous Vitoo Suwannakinthorn Joseph Polsonetti: Free the Hikers Anonymous Nichole: Praying for your hearts and minds. Morayma Ortiz nancy jason: Let them please go back to their families in the name of love thy neighbor we are all on the same planet Jennifer A Jackson Sandra Beckley: I believe the above statement to be true . Cory Rusk: First of all I am sorry for Shane and Josh and what they have to endure with most likely very very poor conditions for these false charges. also That they have to spend and waste precious time of life dealing with a country like Iran that has no value for Personal life of humans beings . I can only hope for there safe release and freedom from this place. keeping Shane and Josh in prison for another moment is not the way to bring about global cooperation and justice! Shane and Josh are global citizens. They need to be free to continue their humanitarian work towards building world peace and helping to create a better understanding between cultures and nations. Please allow Josh and Shane to return home to their loved ones. They have committed no crimes, and in fact, are advocates for peace and they have a great fondness and respect for the Middle East. They are amazing people and are suffering greatly. Please send them home! Anonymous Greg H. Goldman: The hikers are in our hearts and thoughts. We join the thousands of others around the world in calling for their immediate release. We can only imagine the fear and pain that the hikers and their families continue to unjustly endure. ROBERT LORAH GINA DANDREA: Continued prayers go out for these men and their families.. Ashley Stott Anonymous: I hope they release these young men very soon. Anonymous Maggie Jaskolka Olga Andrea Hills Anonymous Anonymous Samantha Vigliotti: Please free Shane and Josh. Not only are they completely innocent human beings but all records show that they are incredible people who have done much for the world already, and who would, if not imprisoned, be continuing to help others throughout the world and to live lives rich in compassion and service. In the case of their families, it is inhumane that two mother's should have to live their lives in a constant state of uncertainty and fear for absolutely no reason at all. The very fact that Sarah was released is evidence that the authorities don't hold any real belief that they were there for nefarious purposes. Let them come home. Anonymous: In America, these young men are still children. They have so much to look forward to in life. Please consider showing them mercy. Michael r shaw jr Rick Relinger Anonymous Anonymous Jennifer Drew Eberts Shristi Pandey Sydney Greenberg Joyce Ling Annajane Yolken Kathi Downes-Cooley: It is impossible that Sarah, Shane or Josh could have committed any crime of espionage! They do not work for the United States government. They are being held illegally. It is long-past time to let Shane and Josh return to their homes, and for all charges against the three of them to be dropped. Please do so immediately. Andrew Dalleluche Mindy Carfagno: Please Please Please free those two innocent boys! They were hiking, that's all! Please send them home to their families! Anonymous: I hope they will be released and they can stay strong till then. I will keep them and their families in my thoughts and prayers. Chelsea Newson Anonymous: Please have mercy on these men and release them, as no crime has been committed. Bob Carroll Anonymous: This is ridiculous and cruel. Drop the cases and release these people to their families already! Anonymous: God Bless the Americans! Anonymous Anonymous: It's been too long. Please, for God's sake, free them now. Enough is enough! Anonymous Elena Miller-ter Kuile Alex Mui Carter Tew Jamie Cohen Anonymous Anonymous Amy Fiel Anonymous Anonymous Lilian Hokama Anonymous: Although this is not an isolated scenario, it's still of utmost importance to uphold the simple human right (if not, simply common human decency) to be treated as you would wish to be treated. Let these harmless world citizens free! Linda Griffith Linda Adair: Do justly, have mercy, walk humbly with God. Love is the greatest of all. Send the boys home. heather eady: Praying :) Anonymous Mary: My prayers go out to Shane and Josh and their loved ones. My prayers also go out to the government of Iran that they will open their hearts and put an end to this sad and needless suffering. Anonymous Jennifer Smith: Please release these young men. Their intentions were in no way devious. They have a profound love of other cultures and peoples and truly wanted only to experience a new part of the world and to appreciate its beauty, its people, and its culture. Wandering in to Iran was inadvertent...a simple mistake. These men have been deprived of freedom, legal representation, and basic human rights for so long now...and for an accidental breach of an unmarked, invisible border. Please do the right thing and return these young men to their families. Anonymous: Please release these men!!! john bromberg Anonymous semko azadikhah Mike Legate Kyle Broom Marilyn Solomon: My heart goes out to you. Evgeny Rebecca Krueger Anonymous: may compassion and truth guide your hearts; please free these young men, and clear the names of all three students. Anonymous Alyson Harris Ellen Torp Naomi F Anne Marie Whelan Lauren McLaughlin Anonymous Gigo7oco300: Hello! Nice day! Please visit famvir tablets,buy cheap famvir site. There are a lot of information about Cialis Tabs. 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Donna Linser Michael Jay Godfrey: I urge you to please review this situation from a neutral point of view, and consider how little holding these American tourists does for your nation, and how gracious you would be in granting their freedom. To release these two citizens of the United States is to gift to them the rest of their lives with the ones that they love in the name of your prudent judgment, and for this I pray that you would show them the same mercy and compassion given you by our God of Abraham. Lara Trainor Alicia Cummings Ken Dobler Patricia Gifford: We want to see proof of life and freedom for both of these young men. We stand in agreement with you their families in the belief that they were in NO way on a mission of any sort to obtain information against the nation of Iran. We call for their release immediately. Asherah Allen: Please free Shane and Josh in the name of all that is holy and sane. Eva Davidson Jamie F Harvey Weisfeld: Please send these young people home. They have suffered greatly during their incarceration and separation from their families for making a simple mistake. It would be an act of good will for you to release them and send them home immediately. Anonymous: I pray each day for the release of Josh and Shane. Please let them return home to their families. Page Heig Anonymous Anonymous A L Tara Kathrine: Please release them. There's been enough conflict in this world. Isn't it time we all start working towards peace and reconciliation? Hannah Nichols Emma Greg Welch: Behind you %1000 Keep the faith I hope they will be home soon Carly Rindinella Kathryn Hunter Jon Letman: show compassion and free these two young men now and surely something good will follow for you as well. if nothing else, you will feel good about what you have done. freeing them is something you can tell your children and grandchildren of with a good heart. this would also reflect very well on iran as a whole... Donna williams: To detain a human without proof, to deny them of access to their lawyer, to deny them freedom is an injustice on every level. If the truth cannot appeal to your decisions, let it appeal to your hearts! Matthew Purnell Alicia Billings Allison Tray: Doing my best to keep this story alive. SO much love to everyone and esp. the families and Josh and Shane. Naomi Gerbarg Armen Carlon Andrea Lloyd Robina Moyer Anne Blair Anonymous: Please free the 2 young American men Shane and Josh. They were innocently hiking and have been imprisoned for espionage/spying and they are INNOCENT!!!! Please let them go as they are innocent. 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Would you be willing to accept the time Mr. Bauer and Mr. Fattal have already spent in detention as enough punishment for their accidental crossing into Iran nearly two years ago? Michael Cover Deb Egstad: Please send these people home!! John Hardenbergh: In the United States, I work to exonerate people railroaded by an unjust system. The principle here is the same. Innocent people should not be imprisoned. Rosalyn Thompson Connie Boswell: Please release these innocent young men. brian cahill Brian Chen Micheil Gerrie: I did not know they were still in jail until I read a report about their mothers starting a hunger strike. Get them out now! Canada to must support and push for their release. We must stand together and make this happen. Jennifer Broussard: As Salaam Aliakum. Inshallah, may Allah's mercy and compassion reign down upon all the humans on earth. Please treat these men as your own children. Health and Strength and Allah's mercy to Iran and all of it's glorious people. Anonymous Anonymous kat neild Carey-Anne Kerby: Please send them home to their families!!! Have a Heart!!! Anonymous Anonymous Sheila Lockwood: Please show compassion for these young men Rachel Kathleen Hoffman: Please release these innocent hikers. It is inhumane to keep them incarcerated. Gary P. Hartzheim: Pray for justice and their release soon, send Muhammed Ali to negotiate. Pray because everything depends on the Supreme Being, work as if everything depends on us. Lisa Wiens HEINSOHN Anonymous: Please pardon the two young men. Amy Chen Kelly Roloff: Please release Shane and Josh. They meant no harm. The are just young men. Please show compassion. My thoughts are with you Shane and Josh. Keep up your strength and hope! Justin L. Weisfelner Stefanie Cramer Shelley Moore Amarides Montgomery Marc Seim Anonymous: my prays go out to you and your family. i know that its hard sometimes but the devil is busy in these last days every time i see you guys on t.v. i cry alone with you. i lost my son-law in october of last year he was shot 9 times in front of his only daugther and shes only 9 i pray your family comes home now and safe. keep the faith and know that barbara is praying with you. Mary Schultz: It's been long enough. Please send these two young men home to go on with their lives. Tawnya Foskett Ray Rezaipour, PhD: Please free my fellow American Hikers. Their detainment is totally unjustified. Stephanie Johnson Bruce Tarin Barbara Maddocks: Please send these kind people home to their loving families and friends. Harry Fehr: Don't play politics on the back of two innocent hikers ! Please free them and let them join their families !! Anonymous: Please send them home. Dan and Lisa Lind: These men are United States citizens! GET THEM HOME! Eli Yoggev: Tears well up in my eyes as I read about these innocent people who are in such suffering. I pray and hope they will be freed soon. My heart is with them and their families. Much love to all of you. becca zendt Sarah Hermanson Matt Leffew Aslam Karachiwala julianne roach Marie Roehrich Anonymous: I pray they are freed asap Nan Pond Rebecca Lori Burns: Praying for all of you! Jennifer Owen: As Salaam Aliakum. Inshallah, may Allah's mercy and compassion reign down upon all the humans on earth. Please treat these men as your own children. Health and Strength and Allah's mercy to Iran and all of it's glorious people. Anonymous Linda Jung: Please release these young men back to their loved ones in America. Cynthia Browne: To the Islamic Republic of Iran--please show some compassion and let these two men finally return home. Rachel McBee Melissa Holt Anonymous: I hope they will be released soon. Remain strong for them. Kelly Lester Anonymous Maeghan Edwards Michaela Ringersen: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"; please let our innocent people go. Conor: Please. Anonymous Janine Bonura: More than happy to sign this one derek harris: From Scotland my prayers and support John Norris: Hope they come home safe and soon. Jayne Wilson Deirdre Fletcher Jane Spickett Roy Lester Corey Wood Angelle Trimble: Please release these young men and allow them to return to their families. Anonymous: Please bring them back! Their mistake has been driven home, they've been punished enough just bring them back now! Victoria Lazo Josie Valdes: It's time to bring these two innocent men back home!! Jadi Stuart Anonymous Anonymous: Free them now! Kerrie Peterson William Whitman Susan: The world is waiting for Iran to show its compassion as members of the human race regardless of the political differences that exist in this world. Return Josh and Shane to their families now. Anonymous: Es hora que los dejen en LIBERTAD!!!! Anonymous Will Youngblood Anonymous: Please let them return to their families. Maria G. Anez-Urdaneta: The craziness of these wrong accusations HAS TO STOP!!! Free Josh and Shane!!! Anonymous Erin Caffee J & C in California, USA!!: Have COMPASSION. Have COMPASSION for the two young men and their families that miss them very, very much. NOBODY has the RIGHT to take away someone's FREEDOM on baseless charges. COMPASSION! yashar: It would be a positive step towards a less hostile relationship between the two countries. Please send them home. Anonymous jane collins Mark ODonnell: Free these innocent men. Stop using them as political pawns Diana Hernandez: We urge you to please let Shane and Josh go, this has nothing to do with politics, they are two innocent men who are simply trying to make the world a better place. clare armstrong: i sincerely hope that shane and josh get out immediately as they are totally innocent of any crime and should be realeased as its cruel beyond words to keep them in iran. martin apra Anonymous: Please release Shane and Joshua. They should not be imprisoned because they were only hiking and happened to stray across a border. Samantha Hill Caroline Liegey April: My thoughts, prayers and love are with each one of you. Darryl Warner: these hikers are not spies or terrorists; it is past time to set them free. Teresa DiCampli: Release Josh and Shane and let them go HOME!! Anonymous Kathleen M. Pape Anonymous Desiree: Please show compassion and set these young men free; allow them to enjoy their lives; our time here on earth is so short. Sandra Reiberg: In the interests of freedom and justice, ideals which are shared by the Iranian and the American peoples, please release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who have committed no crime. lisa walters: Please free the wrongfully imprisoned hikers Shane and Josh Hannah Ritter Andrea Hamblin Veena Donna Woods: Help us return these good men to their lives!!! Eliza Lake Lisa C. Love Kristin Anonymous: This shouldn't even be something to consider. Our government should have stepped in a LONG time ago to settle this misunderstanding. I am signing this in hopes it makes a small difference. These young men and their loved ones are in my prayers! Dan Sackman Sheena Hicks: My heart aches for the remaining two hikers (also for Sarah). I cannot begin to imagine a life of solitary confinement. I cannot imagine the extreme lonliness and despair they are feeling at this minute. My heart goes out to them daily and I truly pray for a quick release. It's time - they've done nothing wrong. Anonymous: I pray this comes to an end soon. Free these young innocent men and let them move on with their lives! Caitlin Rogers Anonymous Maria Mercedes Lopez: This is a creazy situacion! i hope the goberment of Iran finish this for ones att all! Anonymous Anonymous Patricia Kelly: I am Muslim, and it embarasses me that a country calling itself "Islamic" is holding these people without trial for so long. Obviously there is no evidence against them, or they would have been tried by now. How is it "Islamic" to keep these young men from their families for what seems to have been a harmless mistake? Injustice is not Islamic. Memarie Christoforo: Please allow Shane and Josh to leave and go home to their families. Robert Hess Hanna Björg Sævarsdóttir Lenka Craft Stacy George Smith Anonymous Anonymous: Will be in prayer for their freedom and their families' comfort and hope for a safe return home. maria Petty Heather Abbott Anonymous: Please stop this unjust detainment and release them to their waiting families. Anonymous: Please release these two men who have been imprisoned for too long unjustly. Their family and friends are doing a great job spreading awareness! I hope to read of Shane & Josh's release very soon! Selia Garcia: It is urgent that these human citizens be allowed to go home as soon as possible! Their lives should not be wasted away in a prison unjustly! Let them go! Marita Koivisto: The actions of the Iranian government are appalling. These two men have been wrongfully detained, and considering the cruelty and unreasonable conditions they have been subject to during captivity the only right thing to do is to release them. My heart goes out to Josh, Shane, Sarah and their families, and I hope they will be reunited soon. Lisa W Markow Homam Albaghdadi: I sincerely hope for your immediate release and for you to be reunited with your loved ones. Your story truly touched me. Anonymous Sydney Emily Anonymous Stew: They're good people. natasha cohen: FREE THE HIKERS! Sara Magee VB Smith Caitlin christie Sheena Mathews Rachel Pace Anonymous: Australians supports the release of these men who have committed no crime. Jacquie Alley Anonymous: Please release them. They have been imprisoned for no crime. It is time to let them free. Robyn Huber Tegan Rowland: Please release them.. Anonymous leighcandice stephens Amie Davidson: Thinking of you three incredibly brave people. I hope Shane and Josh will be home soon. Anonymous Anonymous: My thoughts are with all the families. Please release Shane and Josh... they are good men with families and friends that are missing them immensely. It is wrong to keep them locked up when they are innocent!!! FREE THEM TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anonymous: Our prayers are with these young innocent people. Please allow them to continue their lives in freedom. Kimberley Hocking: I feel for Shane and Josh, and also Sarah. The boys should be released! Renée kim williams Anonymous: Free Shane and Josh! - from Australia Joanna Sheather: My hopes and love to you all - friends, family and supporters of The Hikers. There are people all over the world sending feelings of passion and support for you - do not lose faith. Congratulations on your bittersweet release Sarah, you are a remarkable young woman, and I have no doubt your powerhouse strength will be integral in Josh's and Shane's release. Good luck. Anonymous Tracy Middleton: After hearing of Sarahs plight,and as a mother I implore the Iranian government to release these innocent young men who have committed no crime, and deserve to be free and back in their own country with their loved ones.My thoughts are with you all!! Lateshia Neal raquel groom: i think the iranian government has tough america and the rest of the world not to cross their borders i say please release these two young men we all see that 14 months is a very long time and it has been a lesson to all so you have achieved your goals with this the world understands not to cross your borders so please allow these two young men to come home. (show the rest of the world iranian people and government do have forgiveness and compassion. Anonymous Hayley Roberts: Please free these two men and let them return to their families. The lesson is learned; please let them go! Peter Lane: I really hope they will be free soon. Anonymous Lyn Milne Lisa Coates: From Australia .... FREE ALL THREE!!!! Anonymous: This is just outrageous. All who are suffering are in my heart, stay strong. Taryn Godley Melanie: The entirety of the world is forever in hope that these innocent, compassionate young people, Sarah, Josh and Shane have peace and freedom that they deserve. I am from Australia and we all support their release, these people are not puppets, they are as human beings who have families, friends, ambitions, and they have done no harm towards anybody, and in return they have been scarred in a way they will have to live for forever. rebecca oconnir Rebecca Sheldon: They shall be free Anonymous: Too much time, money and energy is being spent keeping these innocent men prisoners. It is absurd. Time needs to be spent on legitimate cases of crime, and punishing the right people. Set them free, send them home. Anonymous: I am Australian and support the release of Shane and Josh Fleur Declase Nicole Anonymous Anonymous nadia blefari: please please please, please release Josh and Shane to their families. They have been held long enough. Release them to their families to try and live what is left of their lives in happiness and peace. Please. Nicky Harris: Come on! They are innocent people not criminals PLEASE FREE THEM NOW! 2 years almost is far to long 1 day was long enough this is obsurd LET THEM GO HOME TO THERE FAMILIES and Let them live there lives that they deserve to live pllllleeeeaaasesee Anonymous: Please free these people. Australia. Robyn Carlson: Please release the hikers. They are innocent of any wrong doing. Peta: please free these young people Anonymous Suzanne Smith: These young people represent the right & dreams of us all, to explore the world and learn about other cultures. Through this brings understanding & respecting, locking them away just creates further divide. Hopefully sense prevails soon, and the boys have retained their soulful compassion. Anonymous Cassandra-Skye Sales: These souls have suffered enough. let them go home. Marina: To imprison someone of no wrong doing is breaching the lawful lines of "innocent until proven guilty" what has happened to that statement? they are as innocent aa you or me. This is a problem in which we must find a solution. The president of Iran said along the lines of "I do feel for them but They broke the law I can't do anything" what law exactly did they break? They and no one ever deserves to be treated inhumanly. It's just wrong and i am utterly disgusted in how other people treat their own kind the way they do. On the other hand if they did break the law nonetheless I would not be fighting for their right to be released. Just imagine if you were in their position, not knowing why you're in prison and knowing you're innocent. Until this problem is tackled by Iran I will not hold my breath and fight for what is right! FREE THE HIKERS! Anonymous Maria-Alzira Fernandes: Why have they been kept for so long without a trial, & how have they not had a lawyer in all this time? They have done nothing wrong, let them go home, they have been there long enough. Anonymous Hariratna Nikki Tadic: Just wanted to give my support from Australia. I hope freedom is granted soon. Sarah Findlay: I just watched this story on the Oprah Winfrey show in Australia. It is so disgusting and I feel so sorry for these young men and of course Sarah who is also still suffering on their behalf. Edward Sutherland caitlin golding: i hope that if these boys ever feel like giving up hope they look to the support from all of us to find strength. let's give them something to be proud of.. Fiona Carr: Just take one minute to stop and think: how would you feel if this was your child? There has already been too much anguish suffered over this. Please send them home. Anonymous: Josh and Shane you are both truly inspirations of courage and my most positive thoughts are going out to you both, today, from Australia. Shakti Sharma Anonymous: I support the cause to release these innocent American men. The injustice of such a sentence is baffling and terrifying for all of us who value freedom and justice. From an Australian: Nicole Lidia Anonymous: Prayers and thoughts from Australia for Shane, Josh, Sarah and their loved ones. I hope with all my heart Shane and Josh will soon be free. Anonymous Hayley McFarlane Vanessa: Please let them go, they haven't done anything wrong! lisa Cranfield J.M. Morris melissa harvey Kristy from Australia: Can't imagine what these poor people and their loved ones are going through! I pray they will be freed. Anonymous Vanessa Shane & Rachael: We are sending our love and prays from Australia for the 2 boys still being held in prison, we hope that the Iran government releases these 2 innocent young men as soon as possible. Anonymous Anonymous: I fully support the release of these innocent prisoners. Please send them home to their families and friends. Us in Australia are all hoping and praying for their safe release. Kristy Mounsher Rocheal (in Australia): In a world where so much advancement is made in so many areas, I am disheartened and ashamed as a human that we as a world are so unforgiving, harsh and heartless towards one another. What could these young adventurous people possibly have done to you? what would they have possibly gained from entering your border? Have they not paid dearly enough for an innocent mistake. It takes but one person to stand alone and make a difference so great that others will follow in hoards, why not be that person? You in your position of power in your own country, you have the means to put this right. Send these young men home, let them move on from this whole experience while they can still fulfill all that life has to offer. They have paid more than enough for a silly mistake. Save your prison space and resources for those responsible for far worse crimes. Be a part of the solution to a more harmonious way of life, please dont be another hand in making moving forward an impossible task. Emma-lee Lawrence Fiona: Sending our thoughts and love all the way from Australia Candice: It's been far to long for these 2 americans, Come on Iran SET THEM FREE. enough is enough. Much love to the families and the poor 2 americans in prison. Susan Glenice Neale: Please show compassion and do what is right! Please free Shane and Josh and allow them to go home to their families! This is the right thing to do!! Lisa Allen Nadene Stacey Welch Cynthia Spoon Simone Sharp: They have done nothing wrong, set them free!!!!! Anonymous: Enough with the politics - these are human beings - send them home! Anonymous Sara Rowney: Please free the hikers - they have done nothing wrong. Michaela Pavlíková Heather Cox Jaimie Tomasz Budek vicki: Please free these men.They are hurting and their families are hurting. Swanandita Ghosh: ShaneBauer, Sahah Shourd and Josh Fattal are good, peace loving human beings. I earnestly request the authorities to drop all charges against these three people and release Shane and Josh so that they can return to their families in America. Damen Liebling Ashlea Hitchcock: Regardless of what side of an irrelevant boundary the incident took place, one must ask is it fair to deny access to families or freedom for such an extended period of time to these hikers. Those that hold the keys must ask themselves what would they do if it was their child, their sibling, their loved one who were denied their freedom and they should act accordingly. It is time. Jane O\'Leary Karen Katra: God of the Universe - please bring your light, love and peace to this situation......So Be It. Anonymous: Josh and Shane should not be Punished for participating in life. Please release them Monica Perini Meagan Henning: I am from Australia and heard about Shane and Josh and was deeply disturbed by how inhumane mankind can sometimes be to hold innocent people in prison and away from loved ones! There really is no need for all this. People around the world are begging for your mercy and compassion! Please free Shane and Josh! Leanne: All the way from Australia, please release Josh and Shane. Thank you! To Josh, Shane, Sarah and families, my love and best wishes. xx Paolo Vitali Carolyn Matheson: Think of them as your own children and please free them. Anonymous Anonymous Renae Riviere Clare Hooper: Please free the two male hikers who were obviously completely unaware they had crossed a border and had no intention of causing harm to anyone in Iran they merely wanted to take a hike. Don't let politics get in the way of releasing these men to their families and friends before they pass the point of no return. Surely the American government can do something to assist these young men in their release from torture, solitary confinement and whatever psychological damage has been done. Francesca Fernandez Roberto Barbieri ITALY Maira Penna: In the name of all that is good in the human soul, release these innocent people and show the world a great nation. Helena Maria Claudia Marzorati: The actions or the Iranian Government hit just Iran. You are now judged by the world while you hurt people who never wanted to judge you. Act IN laws and allow these people to prove their innocence. CARLOS NEVES: Release them quickly. They do not deserve to be going through this. Katie Schuessler Joana Cruz: To freedom!! Trav judy goldfarb Amanda Woods: Support from Australia! Anonymous Melissa Ehrhardt Soraya Sarah Hawley: Please allow these innocent hikers to go free. Melissa Wickham Jennifer Critelli: Please do not give up hope or fighting for the release of these inncoent boys. Cláudia Alves Anonymous: After having, just now, watched the Oprah Winfrey Show episode that covers this story I would like to add my voice to the call for the two men, Shane and Josh to be released without delay. They are innocent of any crime and their imprisonment is un-lawful. Gennaro Varriale Chris Rita Esteves: It is unacceptable that two innocent people are being held in prison, accused of something that has nothing to do with them. Please, send them home. Justice must be done. Harriet M: I have been thinking about all of you since this happened. It is such a huge injustice! I hope that this will be resolved soon. wish you all the best and can't wiat to see enws of your wedding! Anonymous: Let's fight this crime!!!! Larry Chapman Ashley Bailey Laura Alper Beverley Hollow: My heart goes out to these three young people who seem to have lived exemplary lives. It is my prayer that Shane and Josh will be released and reunited with their families and Sarah soon. Every day of waiting must be an agony for their loved ones. Charles Shortridge: Please free Shane and Josh, this has gone on too long. Anonymous: The human rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian government are tragic and unwarranted. Along with the release of Shane and Josh, we must call upon the Iranian government to cease taking political prisoners without a shred of evidence. Hopefully along with Josh and Shane the Iranian government will also free the wrongfully accused leaders of the Baha'i community of Iran. Let justice be our guide! Kimberly Sutherland Mills: Please, let these boys go! They have committed no crime. Jim Kendall: These young people are completely innocent victims. It is only to display national weakness and corruption, to resort to the imprisonment of innocent human beings; and calls your entire social/religious structure to be under scrutiny of doubt and irrelevance. Anonymous: please free shane and Josh, do some just for once and for all. Happy birth day to Shane. Sheena Walls-Ingram: My heart goes out to you. Your faith and strength are inspiring. Doug Gregory Anonymous Carolyn Walker: I hope & pray that Shane & Josh are released soon. My heartfelt sympathies go out to their families & loved ones. Of course the Iranian authorities know they are innocent and are using them as pawns. In this world there is quite certain evil and quite certain goodness. The world knows that Josh, Shane and Sarah are goodness. Iran, what side do you live on? Trevor Lantz Katherine Lapi: Please release Shane and Josh and let them go back to their families. Thank you. Troy wolfe: Imprisoning obviously innocent people under such cruel conditions is a sign of a weak, scared government. Rider Cooey: Vancouver, BC, Canada John Vinson: I hope they get home soon Earl Choldin: I call on the Government of Iran to do the right thing and release these two innocent and outstanding men. kris brubaker Kirsten Wiren: please put yourself in these people's situation. Imagine coming to a foreign country and going for a hike and being arrested for it. Then imagine not having access to any of the things you love. What you are doing is unjust. You can change this by releasing them. They are not a threat to you. We all want them to be safe and returned to their families and that is all. Carol DiPasquale: There is enough inhumanity in the world. Do the right thing, Iran, and release these innocent, and quite extraordinary. individuals. Enough politics - nationalism is truly the ruination of civilization. We need to all work together to save our global environment, let alone perpetuate absurd injustices like this. Release Josh and Shane now. Paul Knutson: The three hikers are innocent people who should all be free! Lauren Tolbert: Detaining the hikers is ridiculous and is not furthering any cause, releasing them NOW is the only positive outcome possible. Pam Reekie Vasantha Murthy: Please release Shane and Josh as soon as possible. They are innocent. They are good people. Emily Ramshur: Please free Shane and Josh. They deserve freedom. Nicola Bell: Please free them!! Karen Robinson: Please release Shane and Josh. Their further captivity makes no sense. From Canada Anonymous Anonymous Jennifer L Rocio Cazarin: Please FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER & JOSH FATTAL Sandra Beggs: Please review the decision to imprison these men on humanitarian grounds. Please release them and allow them to return home. Anonymous Jill Cady: Please release Josh and Shane. Their human rights are being violated. Anonymous Ali Nielsen: Please release these two young men home to their loved ones - this is just so cruel and pointless. Gosford, Australia martha pasek: Do this because it is the right thing to do, and will be one small step toward healing the relationship between two coutries filled with good people. Marion Mutch George Premo: After working in Afghanistan for 1 year I feel so much anger for what the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran have done to the three of there families. How could they prolong the trial? If there is anything we over here in Afghanistan as civilians that work for USA goverment Please let us know. We all stand up for you Shane, Sarah and Josh and would like to see the families be back together. I honestly hurt for you and your famlies i wish i could do something for you my eyes get teary when i read about you in the news. I am from San Diego CA. Sarah Can you let me know how they are doing over there. Are countries need to work out a agreement to free these two inocent people. I think about what you are going through everyday JOSH AND SHANE. I hope we can keep in touch your #1 supporter. PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU, YOU NEED IT GOD BLESS YOU Mardi Proper: Please free these two poor souls who only ever wanted to improve the world. Let them have their freedom while they are still young enough to enjoy it Chris Barnette: WHat has the world come to when freedom has been taken for nothing at all. ruth Cooper: I wholeheartedly petition for the release of these young men. They have clearly done nothing wrong and their continued detention is a travesty. Jackie LaVallee: Please free Josh and Shane. They are interested in peace and helping people, not politics. Keeping them will only bring shame to your Nation. Allah would not condone this. Lisa Michod: Please free Shane and Josh. They are two innocent men who have lost nearly two years of their lives for a crime they didn't commit. I ask for your compassion for them and their families and loved ones. Ashley King: Shane and Josh have done so much good for human beings, not just Americans but for people worldwide. They deserve to be released and need freedom so that they can continue towards their goals of freedom for everyone. David Armani: It is truly a shame to keep them in prison! Shame on Iranian regime. Iranians are also victims of this barbaric regime! Robert Haine: Please show compassion and a sense of justice in freeing the hikers. Thank you in advance. Anonymous: please...do the right thing...look at the facts and set them free. imagine that these were your family and your children - these people have done nothing wrong and have been detained for too long... Anonymous: This is so outrageous & difficult to understand. What more can be done to help free Shane & Josh??? Aimee Orr Anonymous: Release these men for the sake of justice! Teagan Thomson Kim Megan Brezovar Katy England: It is a horrible crime to keep these two locked up. They should be sent home. My prayers go to them and their families. This is so upsetting. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous charles masi: This has gone on far too long! Please release these two innocents imediately and allow them to return home! Marny Gibson Fred M. Stanczak: The true test of greatness for any nation is its sese of justice. The unlawful and unjustified detention of Shane Bauer ahd Josh Fattal undermines and dishonors Iran and its people, who surely do not join it the actions of some in the govenment to continue this unwarrented confinement. Rita Jordan-Keller: I humbly ask that you show compassion for these two young men and allow them to return to their families. Carole Eriksson: Injustices like these create distruct, fear, and hatred in our world. We need more love, trust and kindness. If the Islamaic Republic of Iran truly practices Islam, these hikers will be freed immediately. Marion Leary: Please stop the madness and let these two young men come home to their families. They have done nothing wrong and do not deserve this. Anonymous Richard Doiron: Set these young people free. Since you have not charged them with anything, you have no reasons to hold them. Surely, the great land of ancient Persia stands for more than this travesty! Judith H. Block Anonymous Jean Mayes: Please show the compassion of integrity and free the innocent hikers. Lauren Pollak: Please don't delay another day. The imprisonment of these 2 young men is unjust and needs to end immediately. Nancy Hubbard Amanda Whittington: Please release these innocent people. It is very sad you are keeping them locked up when they have done nothing wrong. alex monica sohl Liz Fox Mark Grebenc: Show human decency and release these innocent people. Continuing to detain them without proof or cause just further solidifies the world view that Iran is being governed by irresponsible and inhumane people. This detainment and brutal treatment cannot be justified or tolerated by anyone. Even your own president has admitted the hikers have done nothing wrong and should be freed. Kathy Hibburt Leonard Holloman ana silva Maria Matilde Silva Anonymous Erika de Brito: Olá, sou de Portugal e acabei de conhecer a trágica história da Sarah, Shane e do Josh. É incrível a tamanha injustiça que existe neste planeta. Envio a vós todas as energias positivas para que o Shane e o Josh sejam libertados. Não cometeram nenhum crime. Eles são pessoas maravilhosas que merecem estar em liberdade partilhando e tornando o nosso mundo um lugar melhor. Elisa Braver jeffrey less Jon Garnett Anonymous Kelley from Australia: Please free them. Anonymous: What has happened to these young inspirational people is horrifying. Please release these young intellegent men as soon as possible. Many thanks Emma Wadee: These young men have done nothing wrong and should be sent home to their families without delay. PLEASE. pia bramley Anonymous Joe Suttle Jennifer Carlson: I heard about Shane and Josh's detainment on CBC radio Canada, and was saddened to year that they have been labelled based on the fact of where they are from rather than what they do. I hope to hear of their release soon!!! Carla Sanchez Gabrielle Bayley: Why are these men still being held? It is obvious that they are innocent and should never have been imprisoned....in a troubled world does this gross inflammatory act of human subversion serve any purpose?? The appropriate governments and authorities should be lobbied and forced to act to free them. I had never heard about this before this evenings news report on uk channel 4. Much more coverage is needed to make the world know what is happening. Good luck and I hope to hear of there release in the immediate future. Lara Homza: Please send Josh and Shane home. They've been held for too long for no just reason. Marina Gonçalves: Yesterday I saw the Oprah show and I couldn't stop thinkinng about those two mens. Till that moment i didn't knew about this situation because I'm Portuguese and no one talked about it, but I really hope that will be released soon. My sicere hopes! SOPHIE BEAUMONT: Please free these innocent young men and others like them. Gregory Brookes Anonymous: I am an Australian citizen and I request these men be freed. Anonymous: This is a horrible thing to do to these people. They are just young adventurous people who have done nothing wrong!!! Callin Meyer: These people are humans not animals! Amy Connery Melissa Isbell Anonymous Tams: This is cruel and inhumane. Let them go! They are human beings like you and me! Anonymous: It is clear that these three young people are innocent victims, who were entrapped by Iranian Soldiers that essentially forced them at gunpoint to trespass on Iranian soil. These three young people have spent their lives making the world a better place -- it is an embarrassing crime against humanity to keep any of them incarcerated. J Lewis: Iran is not showing any leadership skills by this rediculous action. Iran should learn to be peaceful. Free these children for they went only in peace. Jelica Roland Marsha Fraser Frank Garrett: American logic: "Hey guys let's torture people we capture to get information!" (Then get upset when other countries do the same to your citizens and soldiers.) Anonymous Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: I detain these spies you send for benefit glorious republic of Iran. You are the great Satan! I will team up with my homedawg, Hugo Chavez, and we will invade your country and break your people! Anonymous: Please show your mercy by releasing this prisoner. Deanna Andrews: One of the joys of youth is to travel and learn about the world. It is heartbreaking to follow this story of such a trip gone bad. Please free these dear people! Allison Shriver: These peaceful travelers have done no wrong, and it is an immense injustice to detain them any longer. Please send them home. Jackie Dreyer Darin Menssen Jennifer Dathan Aileen Pienaar: May God be with Josh, Shane, Sarah and their families during this traumatic period. Jessica Anonymous Anonymous Alex Grove Anonymous: Please allow these young men to go home. Richard Moon: These young people represent good in the world, and the Iranian government is behaving very badly turning world public opinion against Iran. My thoughts and prayers go out to Josh and Shane, and to the people of Iran who are being poorly represented by their government. Jeanne Depman: Release Shane & Josh!!!!! They are not criminals. Lisa Lewis: "We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation." ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld The Iranian government prides itself on such power and holiness, yet all they are portraying in this situation is weakness and cowardice, afraid to admit they made a mistake. A great injustice has been done and it needs to be remedied as quickly as possible. The Iranian soldiers who allegedly lured these hikers across the border, how would they like it if their families were in the same situation - they wouldn't. Dorothy Peticolas Anonymous Amier Carmel Roneil Boodram: Please send these men home to their families. There is no reason for their capture. They deserve to be loved by their families and they deserve to live a free life. Richard Nicholl: If more people had courage like Sarah, Shane and Josh the world would be a better place. angie pollard Jessica Li Yowell Katie Beardsley Anonymous Aristos Grigoriadis Anonymous: These people are not spies. They have commited no crime. Please release them so they can return to their families and their every day lives. They do not deserve the imprisonment they have recieved. Christina Sandberg Michelle Arcaro Anonymous David Harvey Richard Allen Bluhousworker: Paranoia and fear Amy Oswalt Anonymous: Let Josh and Shane be free. Tori Egherman Anonymous: I can't imagine if it were my fiancee and friend in their position. Nicola Nelson Del Pickup Marcella Charles Vilardebo: Free The People. Carolin: Blessings!! Tim West Judith Bijloos Pen Goodwin: My prayers and thoughts are with you x Megan Francis: Please show compassion and release these men. Show the world that your hearts have kindness and humility. There' is enough hate and cynicism in the world. I have hope that the right thing will be done. Please prove me right. XX Rui Miguel Valente Adam Knight Beau Carr: I wish there was more that I can do other than to sign this petition. I hope they remain strong. They are obviously incredibly brave people, and I hope that they are freed as they rightly deserve to be. Free all three! Debbie Waller: Please release Josh and Shane, they need their freedom immediately. Thomas L Carroll: In the name of mercy and God. Please let these young people go home! Anonymous Anonymous Marla Johnson Amanda Draper Shirin Alexia: My heart goes out to Josh and Shane. I pray that they will find their way into the loving arms of their mothers very soon. Faith and Love, Alexia Anonymous Brian Clark: This is bigger than Iran v. USA. This is about human rights and the abuse of which must stop. Act your age Iran. Peter Naish: With its troubled history it is reasonable that Iran should be suspicious of foreigners on its borders. However, it is not the mark of a humane society, that is prepared to lock people away without any trial, no evidence of wrong-doing and no chance for the accused to offer a defence. Even if a crime had been committed, surely enough punishment has been meted out by now. Elizabeth Dickman: Hearing stories like this one makes me question the reality of human compassion. These hikers were not affiliated with the government, why should their country of citizenship result in such an unfair imprisonment? Extremists on both sides only serve to create more distrust between people, and this is a example of an extreme measure. Chris Groppe Kristal Ng Stan Randi Cardia Jacqui Bates: How do they reconcile what they are doing with there faith please release them now. Sara Bjarland shibani narang James Wong: My heart goes out to you, Sarah, Shane and Josh while I was watching BBC programme featuring an interview with you on 14 June 2011. Please stay strong that we are behind all of you. These are peace-loving people and I am sure the people of Iran are just as peace-loving too. Please do not allow politics to be used as a tool against all peace-loving people of the WORLD!!! Let LOVE prevail! Please can the government of Iran lovingly reconsider freeing these peaceful ordinary people! God bless your magnanimous hearts. I pray that Sarah, Shane and Josh, including their families will remain strong and have faith that Shane and Josh will be released soon! Julie Carter: I pray for their safe return daily. The leader of Iran should grant them release. I am sure he is a good and decent man and fully aware of making mistakes and granting forgiveness. Kimia Ghomeshi Elicia holly: What needs to be done to end this? Surely Obama can feel the American people's outcry as much here as he does for the war! Max Henderson: I hope that you all will be free. Stay strong. Robert Lundquist: Free them now!! You have absolutely no right to keep them!!! Thomas Corn: Please, free the hikers! Keep hope. Sarilee Janger Jordan Steiner: I knew Shane as one of my most compassionate classmates at UC Berkeley. He represents only good in this world - please let Josh and him go. Nerissa Layton: Free them...please. I can not imagine this happening to anyone that I know and can not imagine what this must be like for their families and friends/loved ones. This is tragic. I can not imagine what this must be like for Them. Christa Opheim Nathan Shapiro Claire cau-cecile: Bring these boys home to their loved ones, to their mothers. Anonymous Simon Lehembre Elena Shawl: Preyers for Josh and Shane's release are ever flowing from my heart. Deborah Lee Schneer: One more candle for Shane and Josh. Bring them home now! Claire Crockett: I appeal to you to please bring this situation to a close by releasing Shane and Josh. Cathy Moore David Rohde Tânia Carlos Anonymous: I agree that this has gone on too long. Please let politics give way to mercy and release these innocent hikers. Anonymous Anonymous Camille Cusumano: May all beings be happy, safe, peaceful, and free from suffering. Sylvia Brendel Anonymous: Please let these 2 young men return to their families. Lianne Butler Victoria Humphries kirsty finn Emily Bricker Rachel Tublitz Cassell Jones Anonymous Irene Russon: Please return Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal to their homes in America. They are young travellers of the world and have not committed any crimes. Keep Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal safe and free. Rachel Santee morgan Alison O\'Connor: Shane and Josh deserve their human rights to be honoured. Let them see their lawyer, stand trial and be freed, Danielle Spaulding Helen Briers: Sending my positive thoughts and wishes for the release of Shane and Josh. May they, Sarah and their friends and families find continued strength and some comfort knowing that there are many people wishing them well and hoping that they are released very soon. Joey Anderson Ashley Rayford Steven C. Williams Laurie Mattson: Someone has to do something!!!! Our legislature and "powers that be" are not putting their efforts into it at all! I pray somene will.... Anonymous Erin Booth karen mile Anonymous Kara D\'Evelyn: This breaks my heart... there is no reason these men should be held back any longer. These three have been through too much! honor carroll Erin Kilbury Kathryn Ananda-Owens Betty Johnson Marlene Jael Jennifer Johnson Melissa Schmidt Dennis Vogel Kim Vogel Robert Ben Durant Robin Lenka Joanna McGowan Sylvia Habermehl: Please send these two home, you have detained them too long. Deb Forstner Yasser Mohamed Ali: I hope that the Arab people to rethink and show solidarity. Anyone who fights for freedom, democracy and human rights, has the duty to show solidarity. Kristi Flynn Eliza Marks Joanne: Please free shane and Josh. They deserve their freedom the government and the people must do all the can to get them home now. Yasmin Wiedemann: Please send them home! Show your heart!! Jodie Combe Linda Heaton: Release the hikers-it's been too long. Kim McMunn Leslie Vassal Lori Hutchins Kelli Alseth Kelly McFaul-Solem Wendy Hennes Lisa Hennen Niki A Ryan Barb K Taylor Robin Sallie Crystal Thompson Beth Haug Jo Anne Bucholz Ann Rauvola Anonymous Blake Nemec Jonathan Pilch Sara: Please free these innocent people! They have done no wrong and the whole world knows it. Iran if you want the world's respect then free Shane and Josh immediately. Anonymous: Please free these two men they have done nothing wrong. Let them go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou. Céline Gillès LORRAINE SWEENEY Lisa mhaya: Please show compassion and humanity and release Josh and Shane. Anonymous Evalyne njambi Gabrielle Visco: Open your ears and heart to the people. Set them free. Fabiana Grimaldi Jon Mills: One is out. Two more to go.. please FREE them! seseug notliar: Fredown shane Baur!!! Henry Cumoletti Jenna Dunham Anonymous: I pray for their safe return. God is faithful, ur children will be returned to u. Tom Fenton Anonymous: Please do the right thing and let them go. Aimee Bouchee Emma an Iranian in exile: the most craziest and terrorist government on earth is Iran's gov. people of Iran are their hostages,I wish they get free, I myself fled from my home country Iran, I'm so sorry for incident... daniel poston: I went to go to high school with shane in san lorenzo, CA. I considered him a good friend as did everyone that met him. i just wanted to say i am praying, as are many others here, for his and josh's release to be as prompt as possible. this injustice has gone on too far. Anonymous Jan Hovorka: Free Shane and Josh! Sandy Eastoak: I have been a friend of the Iranian people for 30 years. This injustice hurts Iran as a country, and Iranians as a people. Please release these young men. Ken Marston Lemis Al Naseri: Sorry for what hashappened to you. Inshallah you WILL BE FREE ASAP! Keally Cieslik Stephanie McClennon: If Shane and Josh were in the wrong, don't you think you'd have evidence by now? Clearly they're innocent. The innocent do not deserve to be detained. Let them free! It's not doing anyone any good by keeping them in prison. Laura Wilkens Jeff Kidd: This detainment is unconscionable. I'll refrain from commenting on how this reflects on the government of Iran, other than noting the value that most of the rest of the world places on the inherent human rights of innocent people. Absence of action is an act in itself. Free the hikers; Free Iran. Renee linda minamoto: My thoughts and best wishes go out to Shane, Josh, Sarah and families. I hope you are all reunited soon. Anonymous Anonymous shannon stoney patricia clarke Kathleen H.: I will pray daily for their release! Andrea Galluzzo Karen Carson: Please free Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal who are innocent men, neither of whom have committed any crimes. End the suffering now and let them come home. Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Bob English Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Susi Diallo Anonymous Bre Keller Sierra Wilson Anonymous Anonymous Jo-Ann Tsang Anonymous: I would imagine Iran's government/justice system has better things to do with its time than try three humanitarian workers on trumped-up charges. Please release these young people and get back to the very important business of making your country a leader in compassion, culture, and safety for locals and visitors alike. Peace Gardiner Anonymous Anonymous: I pray for your freedom. May God Bless you both and keep you safe xo Courtney: Please free Josh and Shane - they have been UNJUSTLY detained and for far too long. Anonymous Michelle Gralish: You are all in my thoughts and prayers that soon all 3 will be back home in America where they belong! Anonymous Naomi Anonymous: The Iranian government knows the truth that these young men are not spies. I continue to pray for the Iranian government to do what is right and just in the eyes of Almighty God. Anonymous Samuel Hathaway III: Thinking about you. All my prayers. Ryan Hebert: Indefinite detention needs to end. Right here. Right now. Let them go. Julie Franz Lisa Hillesland Holly Savitsky joe fowler: Canada requests the immediate release of Shane and Josh. Anonymous Desiree Taylor: Please allow them to come home to their family's and friends who miss and love them. We all have faith that you will show them kindness and mercy and let them come home where they belong. Thank-you. Anonymous Ben Ayliffe Georgina Rice Jennifer Wilson Anonymous thomas kuhlman Joshua Stein Annie Turner Nick Barrett Anonymous Diana Ortega: mercy Shirley Nicklin: Please do what is right. Nathan T. Kesti Steve Spencer susana wendy Michael Winger Ed Schlegel: It was a mistake and no harm was done. Aina: You are all in my heart and mind. I pray that you will soon be set free <3. I am so sad for this... Best wishes from Aina, Norway Omid Koohi Anonymous: My heart goes out to the mothers of these two boys. I have two sons and cannot imagine the anguish, fear, and worry that they are experiencing. I will never understand the ability of humans to hurt one another. And I will never be able to comprehend how we cannot live in peace. John Lennon said it best: "Imagine there's no country." I love my country but I love this planet more. Supposedly we are evolving and learning and, Inshallah, growing to live side by side without animosity. I hope we develop into a more loving species. I cannot fathom the purpose of this incarceration. I can't even begin to figure out how this is doing anything but making the world mad at Iran. Is that what you want us to feel about your country? There must be some compassion in your government...please exercise your right to show it. Sarah Whitford Donna: The world will applaud you only when you let these two boys go home. Anonymous: These people deseve nothing less than freedom. Please release them and let them go home to their families. They have done nothing wrong. dollat aline: FREEDOM FOR INNOCENT PEOPLES Mary Lybarger: The charges are complete nonsense! Be realistic and quit taking out your hatred of America on these young people. Anonymous Lydia Harrington Iris Cano Elizabeth Wilson Anonymous: Please let these boys come home. Stephanie Monty: Pointless incarceration against an innocent works to blemish Iran's image in the eyes of the world. We are watching and acting. We will not stop our vigilance nor will we forget the inhumanity. Why not make Iran look strong and sensible instead of desperate, weak and foolish? Release the innocent hikers immediately and gain the praise of the world instead of accruing blame and mistrust for it's leaders. Every hour that goes by is a missed opportunity for redemption. Every minute wasted is a crime. Do not continue to uphold the decision of a few wayward soldiers. Why is holding innocent Americans such a great prize? Are our innocent people so valuable to you? What can you possibly hope to gain? You have gained my mistrust and millions of others mistrust. End this now. John Goraj: Please free these people of our country very soon. It is very obvious that they are not guilty of any crime or harm to Iran or its people. In the name of peace, please release them Laurel Przybylski Carlos Palma Anonymous Jessica Martinez: it's been too long Paul Callahan: Please give our young brothers their freedom back. You have nothing to gain by holding them. Please find your humanity and let them go. Ben Walker Amy Harlib: These young men are not spies or criminals! Please let them go now. Imprisoning them is a crime! Anonymous Frank Barat: Wish to see both of them out soon. Jovanni Flores: Please let them go Azra Kalkan Anonymous Christine McCabe: Please show brotherly compassion to these innocents. Joyce Burgess Katarzyna Sidlo Anonymous Anonymous: They have been detained for too long... There is no reason to keep them. Let them go so they can return to their families. Scaughdt Iam: If the American government is unwilling to do anything more to free these two men from their patently unjust incarceration, then we are truly no longer a nation that can call itself "great". If you don't have anyone willing to go to help effectuate their release, send me! Michael Kienzl: Please free Josh and Shane. Iran would benefit from freeing them so much more than keeping them in prison. John Templin Anonymous David Bloch Laura Pastor: Iran, show the world that you mean what you preach every Friday - show humanity and good will. Please send them home David Maciewski: Shane and Josh should be released immediately. cynthia susan carey Kathe Fletcher Harriet Joseph william planz deb Philip Arrowsmith Anonymous marilyn fishel: i send my plea to you to release shane bauer and josh fattal and let them return to their country and to their families.. Marissa Spiegel Phyllis Sheridan Anonymous Anonymous: PLEASE free the hikers. I know if we all work together Shane and Josh will be home safe soon! Anonymous Ian Murphy: Salam, hale shoma che tore? I know lots of Iranian people and they are a great friendly people. Please Islamic Republic of Iran free these people. Motoshakeram. Anonymous Sarah Sagan Carolyn Wright: These young men dedicated to justice and who were hiking should be released. George: I hope you guys get back safely! Emma Si Nae Anonymous jill rasp-krinsky: Free them. Please. May they hear our plea and understand their innocense. Gerald R Perdue Shaunta Robin Mary DiNapoli Lemuel Walker arlene weber Malia Mau Chris R. Duffy Anonymous Francy Elkins: Please find the compassion that is in your heart to release Shane and Josh so they can return to their families. These two men have families who love them. I to enjoy hiking, and that is what Shane and Josh were doing when they were taking. I ask and pray to the Creator God that you will find the compassion in your heart to release Shane and Josh. Thank you for reading this letter. May God be with you. lowell tuttman: Josh is a family friend and a fine human being. What good can there be in holding Shane and Josh and taking away the best years of their lives. As Ramadan approaches what could be a more humane gesture to release them to their home and families and let them move on with their lives. AnneMarie Nixon: Please send these guys home to their families. Marcia W -Glenside PA Adam vincent Anonymous Kelsey Taylor: Hasn't the Earth and it's inhabitants been ripped apart by squabbling and anger for too long? Please let these people go back to their families, it foster nothing but gratitude. We are all people, let's stop focusing on our differences and start focusing on our similarities. I in you, you in me. Anonymous: Please do what is just. Remy Stacey Succop Clara Sayre zoe williams Hila v: Josh and Shane are innocent! Send them home!! Faith Decker Eoin Mac Craith Eliza Straim Stephanie Ng: Free the hikers in the name of Goodwill, and Kindness Ingrid Douma Danielle Lemelin Herring: Respectfully, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, release these men on compassionate grounds. Their mothers need them. The world is watching now! Marna Jacobsen Genessey Flint: Please send these men home. They do not deserve to be used for any political means. They clearly have no intentions of harm and only seek peace for the world. Birgitte Bruun: Please send these two young people home. Nothing is being accomplished by keeping them. Anonymous Steve Bale Jeanette Mellody: My thoughts and prayers are with the men. I pray they will be released immediately!!! God bless and keep them safe and healthy. Judy Webb Lael Burge Wendy Bushey Anonymous: Please let them free! Anonymous: Please release them. Do the right thing! Patricia Sprute: Please release Shane and Josh they were just hiking, enjoying nature and the beauty of the two countries .They have done nothing wrong and they are not spies. Marguerite Gieseke: Please allow Josh and Shane to leave. They need to come home. Zachary Slater Andrea Rael Andrew Zimmerman Elena Laning Goudarz Eghtedari: These progressive individuals shall be released, now. Islamic Republic should know how much damage this arrest has inflicted upon their image amongst US progressives, ENOUGH is ENOUGH! Anonymous Stephen Levitt Anahita Huntwork: I lived in Iran for many years both before and after the revolution and know the the people of Iran are fair minded and gracious to visitors. I believe hese you are of similar spirit and pray that they may be returned to their families and friends safely and soon. Anahita Huntwork Eugene Donaldson C. Henry Schuyler: It would be a great act of peace on the part of your government to release these three individuals. Meredith Sloan: Please let Shane and Josh come home to reunite with their families....this is crazy that this has gone on for so long and why hasn't the U.S. government gotten more involved to help their citizens?! I thought we were all about freedom?! ugggggg. Please just send them home!! Peace, Love and Hugs. Amy Ruttenberg Thor Mickelson Ray Hedgpeth Nicol Hedgpeth Eve Vogel Aliene Howell Michele Ryder Angel LaCanfora: The world is watching & your reputation has been harmed. Let them go or risk further negative aspersions cast on your country's legitimacy. Meera: FREE THEM. Tenks Kelly Owens Sharon Prokop: Please release Shane and Josh and let them return home to their loved ones in the U.S. Joan Rockwell: The world is watching. We are watching. Allow these bright young people to return to their families. In a world where there is so much wrong it is only right. Reality Check: How's that "group hug for world peace" mentality working out for you? This is the most stupid thing I've read about in decades. You've absolutely embarrassed your country with your ignorance in being anywhere near an incident like this. What were you even doing in a part of the world that obviously none of you have even the slightest clue about? Unbelievably dumb, dumber, and dumbest. Anne Merritt Harmeet Singh Sooden Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Rob Staples Anonymous: Keep them. We don't need these two idiots back in the U.S. And send Sarah back to join them so we can stop listening to her whining. You fucked up and you got caught, now deal with the consequences. Enjoy those Iranian prisons the rest of your life. You earned it by being stupid. Mikael Brucker: These are humans not political pawns. mike topper Robin Bower Lucia guidolin Anonymous Pam Huston: I'm glad I watched the video. I had never understood how 3 Americans ended up hiking in Iran. Now I understand. God Bless all of you. Jeremy minkowitz Shane Mitchell: Shane & Josh are innocent. Please be Compassionate & sensible - Set them Free Bobby Shaddox Mary Robins Ria Amidon: Out if good will, please allow the hikers to return home. Thank you. fiona knox OBD Connector: Galletto 1260 OBD-II OBD2 CAN USB Interface Diagnostic Tool is incredibly very easy to make use of. Just turn your personal computer into a auto diagnostic system. This obd connector interface with software program included is all you will need. Works for many of vehicles right after 1996. It can read and clear all diagnostic trouble codes. Display all of the live information of your automobile. Anonymous Emily J. Schoneman Kate Nix Sean Tanner: For the love of God! Seyyed Davood Mousavi: free the hikers ... Rhanatah Griffith: Please let these wonderful people come home, they are no threat to you, and will leave in peace. Anonymous: WHAT IS IRAN AFRAID OFF ? THREE INNOCENT HIKERS WITH NO GOVERNMENT AFFILIATIONS.ALLAH IS JUST,IRAN IS IMMATURE. Stephen Coger Katherine Lee Justo Varela: Please free these human beings. Their only fault: be young, nature lovers, and environmentalist in all terms.. Jeanne Scofield: Not everyone on this earth has ill intentions. Please be amongst the group of humans with good intent. Be humane and let the young men go back home. Alexis Montgomery Angela Lovell Jessica Meyer Anonymous Marcie Newman-Perskin: Please release these innocent men===their families are waiting! Eric Nichols Anonymous Rafiq Shivji Erick Diaz: Iran, what is your intention? It has been 2 years already, regardless of what you think about our American government, not all of us Americans here have the same views as them, so whatever reason you're angry with America, please remember, just like your country we as people don't run the country nor do a lot of us condone the majority of conflicts across the Earth made by the governments that claim to be doing so in our best interest. Please look beyond the problems that far outweigh two men that were hiking in your country and made a honest mistake. Please use your wise judgement and not make a hasty decision that could ruin Shane and Josh's lives forever. We have a long way to come as a race of beings all sharing one planet, we have enough things to worry about as a whole, we need to realize that bringing the population down isn't the answer, but finally uniting as one race, together in such a vast Universe, that is the answer, and we need Shane and Josh to remain part of our community. Iran, I urge you to please look at EVERYONE you have imprisoned, and please release all those who are held without charges or those who have been accused of something they obviously have not done. We Thank You. ~Unus Terra~ wendy wamser Judy Newman: I implore you to reconsider the detention of Josh and Shane. They are of no threat to Iran, and you can only be seen as compassionate in the eyes of the world by freeing them. The world will thank you. Let us all work for peace and share the planet. gail keeler: release now! Anonymous Annie McLaulin: I know that relations between the US and Iran have not been good, but we can strive to improve our understanding and respect for our differences as well as our appreciation for our basic shared humanity. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Anonymous Melissa Watson Rosimery Coste M. M. H.: It is unfortunate that such an injustice has been allowed to carry on for so long. It also sends a very loud and clear message to those that enjoy traveling to all corners of nature: Beware that you do not cross into or near such an inhospitable country. As if the picture was not painted grimly enough, the actions of their government only continue to guide their people into a downward spiral. FREE ALL THREE and show us that you can change your pessimistic ways and focus on issues that actually require your attention. Lois Hybl marie acree Jessica Peng: Please, look into your hearts and search for what Allah tells you is right and just for Shane and Josh; look for what He tells you is most righteous in His holy Name. Surely He will tell you that these young people have meant you no harm, and deserve to be released. Show the world Allah's infinite Mercy through your righteous conduct in releasing the two remaining hikers. In that hope and prayer, peace be upon you. Anonymous: Please free these people who have been held against their will and for no apparent reason. They should never have been imprisoned. Hartson Doak Anonymous J Torgerson Emily Daniel Kaplan Lisa Vonder Haar Froukje Brouwer Brian Michael Cohen: Please grant freedom to Shane and Josh. Thank you. Anonymous Lola L. Schiefelbein: Please...we wish these persons to be freed. They are of importance to the world because they have families like yours who miss them. Thank you. Stephanie Shelley Kyleigh Mituzas: I hope these men will be free to be home with their families. Zsanett spitzer: Please release them and never let them back into your country so this would not happen again! debbie lane: please let these hicker go. they have not done anything wrong. it was a accident. you must do what god would want you to do. please do the right thing. just think if this were your children and how you would worry and suffer over them not being with you. in the name of jesus i beg you to let them go!!!!! thank you sebbie lane Ernest Drown Trenton Johnston: We speak as one people, as one nation and as one world. We are all one, we are all love and peace and faith. Please let these guys return to their families as you enjoy returning to yours. Anonymous Elizabeth Fixsen: Show Allah's mercy and give Josh and Shane their freedom. Lynne Moulesong Kristy Steffens Deb Olson Carol Howell billy wilkinson MIchele McGinn: FREE ALL THREE! Carol Denson Sarah Teubner: Please free these three people. They are surely do not deserve the punishment they have been given. Send them home now! Deborah Fexis Hon Soulo Anonymous: Please have a heart and consider if this could have accidentally been your own young adult children taking hikes in wilderness; it was an accident that the crossed the poorly marked border. Please release them, I implore you, all the way from California, USA. 95404 Anonymous: Blessings.... Please release these innocent souls...... It is an International WORLD Peace gesture to be compassionate and understanding in this matter........we need to be truly Living our Spiritual Life as fellow citizens on this One Planet, created by our One Creator....and become Global Citizens of this Earth....in TRUE Eternal Peace ! Thanks for your concern to settle this incident in DIVINE Love.... Omody Tina Cindy: In the holy month of Ramadaan, surely now is a good time for Iran to do the right thing and release these young men? Ana Luisa Dias Christine Giannini: Keeping Shane and Josh imprisoned is doing nothing for Iran. It makes a once great culture look petty and mean-spirited. May the judge in their case show wisdom and compassion by releasing them to go in peace as they came along an unmarked track. Mariel Narvaez Carin Zellerman Anonymous: Shane and Josh are people that are gentle souls who were exploring the beauty of the wilderness. Please release them so they can continue their journey in the greater world and return to their families. Stephen G Dickhout Anonymous Anonymous: Please release the hikers. They never meant any harm to anyone. Bethany Harrell Anonymous keith scharding: don't be a digjel - the holy angels are watching over these young men. Anonymous Katherine Rivers Mary Jo Knox: Send our children home. Anonymous: Perhaps it's time to show that Iran has a compassionate and fair side. There has been so much negative press about Iran. Here's a chance to stand up and say "Hey, there's more to us than just the cold, fear-inducing cruelty that many have portrayed as our most outstanding quality". Here's a perfect opportunity to make America regard Iran as a country with perhaps a bit more heart than suspected. Please take this opportunity, take it while you have it and while you still have a chance to do the right thing. These people have families and friends worried sick day in and day out. Please consider where your own heart would be if someone had complete control over the fate of one of your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews. Can you imagine the mind-numbing fear? Can you feel the sickness in your stomach that great fear and uncertainty causes? You have the chance to change not just the lives of those you hold captive for no apparent crime (being American is not a crime) but for everyone in America. Because in America we share the worry and fear when one of our own is in possible danger. When our neighbor's child goes missing it doesn't matter if you know them or even like them everyone goes looking. This type of thing draws Americans closer to each other as they seek the mutual comfort and encouragement of one another. I don't know Shane or Josh but I feel their fear and the fear of their loved-ones as distinctly as if they were my own brothers. If you have ever cared deeply for anyone in your life it isn't hard to imagine the tremendous pain of being seperated from that person with no idea when they will be back in your life. Worst of all is knowing that they desperately want to come home to you but no matter how hard they try they cannot do so. Can you just try to imagine the unending joy you have the ability to give so many people just by sending these young men home? I don't think even you believe they are really guilty of anything deserving a prison sentence. They are guilty of having the heart of an explorer and a desire to see as much of this great world we share as possible. Is that so wrong? I think you should be proud that your country holds a beauty that draws people like Shane and Josh. Draws them to see and explore the world around them with an overwhelming curiosity. It's that type of curiosity that has helped our countries progress to where they are today. Is it not? I look forward to the news that you have sent Shane and Josh home free and healthy. I know I am only one of many, many Americans waiting for word that they are free. Sarah Phillips: It is horrifying that such decent people can be taken prisoner for crossing a line they only crossed because of a soldier with a firearm misleading them. I truly hope for their release and happy lives. Anonymous: Please let Josh and Shane go. They deserve to be free, and unintentionally committed a crime that resulted in no one being hurt but themselves. Because of Shane and Joshs respect for Iran, please show them your respect for USA by letting them go! Claire: These are innocent people who deserve their freedom back Amy Irene Anderson Anonymous: These men have done nothing wrong, and deserve to be freed. Ana Arjona Anonymous: Please! Anonymous Sarah Hoefs Anonymous: The Lord is with them. Rochelle Joy Paquin: If keeping innocent people locked up this way is your idea of showing fairness, you are failing at it miserably. Leah Finity patsy mollica: ...praying for you all~<3 Cassandra Treppeda Toomas Meema: peace! Brad Griffin Anonymous: Please do the right thing and allow Shane and Josh to come home. Thank You, Linda Borton Anonymous Anonymous: Set the hikers, Shane and Josh free please. I pray you do this, the right thing. Patricia Davis: My prayers and thoughts are with Josh and Shane and pray for their release and safety. chris s. Anonymous Rebecca Moshman jonathan rivin Karen Rosenberg Julie Smiley Magali Larson: I do not forget you. We are impatiently waiting for August 7 and hoping with all our heart that you will be released. You are brave in every way, and we are proud of you. Elia Cadilla: In the name of all that is decent, and to show that humankind can be be really kind and human, please send these two young men home. Please. Linda Greene Gloria Brandman Catherine McGuire: This is a terrible injustice that can be corrected. Please release these two hikers. Mariandl Newbold Anonymous James Foley: We pray in this holy month of Ramadan for the authorities to have mercy on these two innocent Americans. Dr Nadege Genetay Joseph Dowd Sarah Fang Brittany Fairbanks Patricia Vázquez Naomi Draper Sarah Teal Christina Felty Eric T. Hawkins William Summers: We need more exchanges of people between Iran and the West, not less! They are harmless - please release them. T. Moore: My heart goes out to the families, everywhere, who are forced to away from their loved ones Anonymous Anonymous clotilde: Libérez Josh et Shane! alessandra persichetti: Please release the innocent hikers! Barely crossing an unmarked border is not a crime, please release them. Anonymous: Sometimes the best of intentions, and altruistic motives fall victim to unwise decisions. I'm sure for Sarah, Shane, & Josh this has been an experience they will never forget. They have paid a dreadful price and should be released by Iran if for nothing other than humanitarian reasons. Steven Scott: The holding of these individuals without due process stands in opposition to the recognition of the fundamental rights of all peoples. Each day that Shane and Josh are held is further testament to the character of the current Iranian regime. Each day proves Iran a cowardly, unjust, and paranoid pseudo-religious enemy. Show that there can be decent diplomatic relationships between Iran and the west - please, release Shane and Josh. Barbara Waterbury Emily Silver Anonymous ELIZABETH HAYLEY MASON Susan Parker: Please set them free Linda Babcock: As an avid hiker and appreciator of beautiful places in the world, I can understand the desire of these three hikers, on break from their community service work in Iraq, to explore the incredible terrain of Iraq's mountains. They inadvertently crossed into Iran, understandably when there are no signs or makers. Free the two remaining young people who committed no crime; let them go back to their lives with still fire in their hearts for living life! Gaetano Mazzotta Celina Gauthier: Please show compassion for these individuals who I'm sure want nothing more than to be with their families. Keli Tolley Sara Dorsey Anonymous: I am sickened that this continues, days after they were promised a verdict. Please, for all humanity, let them come home to their families!!! Danny Ghitis Anonymous John Cupps: This country has a moral responsibility to fight for these Americans till the day they come home. When you deal with a dictatorship like Iran you cannot show fear and these hikers and their families deserve an end to this. Someone needs to stand up for these young men and never let them be forgotten. Carol Clouse Cindy Fitzmorris: You are both in my prayers everyday. May the Iranians find it in their hearts to release you both as soon as possible. God Bless you. Suzanne Kolasa Anonymous: Praying everyday for their release NIna McDonald Anonymous: I'm not sure if I signed this before but if not you have my support. My prayers are with Josh and Shane. May they be free to come home and enjoy their lives in freedom! Beth Halliwell Natasha Challapally: Please free the hikers. They have suffered enough and they will not be forgotten. It is time especially since it is the holy month of Ramadan. Peace Heather Rivera Anonymous Marisa Catalina Casey: There are no words to express the great injustice that has occurred here and will continue to occur until each of these inspirational individuals is freed. Right will prevail in the end over political might. It is so sad to me that these three courageous educators and activists have become innocent victims of a battle they never opted to fight. Please release them - two years is too long. Thomas Coyle L Brady Teresa L Mandli: Please free these two young men. They mean nothing to you and everything to their families. With the world's eyes upon you, it can be of no advantage to keep them imprisoned. Rose M Bauer: Dear God, we offer up a prayer to bring these young men safely home to family and friends as soon as possible. Amen Rita Valentino Maree Carr Anonymous: Please allow Shane and Josh to come home..You all did the right thing allowing Sarah to come home and these two have paid their due with time served and should be set free..Please have mercy for Josh and Shane..I'm sorry that they got confused and crossed into your territory but they didnt do it on purpose..Please keep peace in the world and allow these two free..May everyone pray for their safe return home...Please Islamic Republic of Iran..Please show compassion and mercy.. Anonymous: I really wish Iran would see how useless and somehow laughable these arrestations are... May them free these poor "tourists" as soon as possible. Anonymous: Please free Shane and Josh. They are young innocent people who's lives are important. Please stop their suffering and the suffering of their families. My prayers are with you'll Shane,Sarah and Josh and your families. Have faith in God, he will work in marvelous ways! alini roy: Please release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal.Thank you. Anonymous: plz free dese innocent ppl..dey do not deserve such harsh treatment.. dey must b free nd dey will b free.. Mallory Sowcik: Please free Josh and Shane and allow them to be reunited with their family. JoAnn Prince Anonymous: Please release these innocent people! They are supporters of human rights around the world and anti-war activists. There is absolutely no possibility that they are spies. Have mercy on them. sharon omalley Anonymous Anonymous shelley Suzan Kilby: Please free Shane and Josh. They deserve to be with their families. Anonymous Elizabeth Huot doreen sutherland: Please free these young men, humanity is about cooperation and making this world a place where we can all live as one. pat: please release our men who were only hiking! Elroy Wing Hoo Pun: Please free Shane and Josh. Sabina: Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Alborz mountains of Iran. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes above Tehran. But not only that; let freedom ring from Mount Damavand! Let freedom ring from the Mountain of Kholeno! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of the Caspian coast. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Muslims and Jews and Christians, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" (Borrowed and slightly altered from Martin Luther King) Stephanie Black: Praying for Josh and Shane! Please let these innocent young men go! They have committed no crime! Karla M Krause Lennie Dietsch Allison Webber sudie hyll: free the hikers now.! Kimberly Lytle: Praying to the one God/Allah/source who loves all people and expects people to love one another. Praying for peace on earth. Releasing these innocent young men would be a huge step in that direction. Love and light to Shane, Josh, Sarah, their friends and families and to the people of Iran and the world. We are all one! Anonymous: It's not like these guys hiking in the woods could steal national secrets! You think them, with their backpacks, are going to march on into the country's capital, get a meeting with the Prime Minister, and send the confidential info back to the U.S.??? It doesn't make sense! Anne Davison Anonymous: Please release these prisoners on humanitarian grounds, Yours respectfully. d mccartney Summer Betting: I pray for their release Jill McCracken: Please free Josh and Shane as soon as possible. Frank Stevens: It's Ramadan. Why this incredibly harsh verdict during Ramadan? Not worthy of an Islamic Republic. Michelle Stephanie Sanchez Leigh Vaughan Roger: Free these innocment men. They have committed no crime. They are loved and have suffered enough. Anonymous Chevy: Free Shane & Josh!!! Claudia Basil Anonymous: In the interests of peace and international diplomacy, I respectfully implore the officials of the Islamic republic of Iran to show compassion and release Shane and Josh so that they may return to their families and friends. Chris Becker Gregory Bodwell Grant Gayle: The Iranian Government should not be allowed to falsely accuse these innocent men. Free them now! My thoughts and prayers to them. Allison Robinson Joanne Eisensmidts: Enough time served! Release now. Cathy Huey: Please send these men home. Do the right thing and return them to their loved ones. Anonymous Anonymous Amanda Shoulson Ann Hawxwell: Please free them! Chad Boone Lily Peacock: Thanks for all your dedication and work to release the hikers Tamara Smith Angie Gasowski: FREEDOM TO SHANE AND JOSH!!! WHEN WILL HUMANS LEARN THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK FREELY ON OUR EARTH WITHOUT DETAINMENT AND DISCRIMINATION!! Petra Drgonova Anonymous Angela Beechan Jo Fischer Anonymous: The detainment of these two Americans is completely unjust and I will give my prayers to Shane and Josh. Emily Bruso Michael Skrocki: This verdict is bogus. Bring back the Americans. This is horrible. Anonymous Arya M. Elizabeth Williamson Martin Kraft John Anderton Anonymous: In the name of justice please release these two men who have done nothing to deserve an eight year prison sentence. Please send them home. Thank you. Polly Reed: Will you heed this plea to free these young men and not use them as a ploy to achieve your political goals? Andrea Danger Shelley McPharlin: These 2 young men must be released.This is an incomprehensible injustice! Jodie Barziza: Help these people please!!! don crozier Anonymous: Of all the people in the world that deserve punishment or detainment from society, I can not believe the Iranian government chooses to invest resources to punish and detain these amazing young people. While I do not know them personally, all I have read indicates that they are positive additions to the global community. My heart goes out to their friends and families. The Islamic Republic of Iran is doing themselves and the world a disservice. Let them come home. Dianne Fritsche: “Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will” At this time with love and the full heart that belongs to all Mothers I ask you to release these sons and allow them to return home. Michelle Vitetta: I wish a quick end to this nightmare and a speedy return of my 2 fellow American citizens. Please send them home quickly. They are missed. Sue Stinson: Set them free. ANONYMOUS: Do something good for us all, FREE THE HIKERS. With all due respect this is disgusting that people would do this to each other. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND MAY GOOD BLESS THE HIKE THAT THEY STAY BRAVE AND STRONG. Chinyere Okpara Mandy Burke Liesl Erb: May the love and strength of Shane and Josh's families and friends be augmented by the love of people throughout the world who believe in their innocence. Justice and love must prevail. Anonymous: While I think their reasons for hiking in Iran, one of the most dangerously terrorist populated countries in the world, I do not however want them to stay detained and hope that ambassadors in the form of Bill Clinton & Jimmy Carter can free them. Joel McLaughlin: I pray for there release. Unfortunately, in modern politics, good people get involved in bad situations. God, please intervene in the lives of the decision makes of Iran and America to help bring these hikers home. Also, I pray they will be comforted, and when this is all said and done; will be able to take positive things away from this and move mountains with there experiences. Nathan Kolet: These guys NEED TO BE RELEASED NOW! Looking at who were dealing with (IRAN) We know they are being treated unfairly, unjustly and are only being held captive for political reasons that have no justification on them or their family! GOD BLESS! Rachel McClard A serious political adult: Sorry folks, but these juvenile idiots got what they deserved. Travis Kalcik: Sending Prayers Molly Martinson Ted L. Carter-Thornburg: I am a Vietnam Disabled Veteran. Please release my Brother's Shane and Joshua, they are needed at home. David Ross Perow where are the rescue planes. Thank You Your a Saint. Thank You Mr. President for getting them out. Anonymous: USA DO SOMETHING GET THEM OUT OF THERE. ATHIS IS HORRIBLE. Mike Akins Kamilah Khatib: Please release and send these kids home to their families. Show the world that you are a Nation of faith and good principles. Anonymous: I am so saddened by this story. Please return these men to their families. I invite all Iranians to hike our beautiful country in peace! Joe Halloran Nathan Mileur Anonymous Anonymous Serena Depero Elayne Weiner Anonymous LFieser Nathan Mulligan: This has been an outrageously extensive and needless violation of human rights. Be an example for your great country, and the world, please free Shane and Josh. "A qualified man with vision, unmoved by daily selfish interests, will be led to right decisions by his conscience. In general, a man who knows from whence he comes and where he is going will co-operate with his fellow human beings. He will not be satisfied with merely doing his ordinary duties but will inspire others by his good example. You are being watched by the nation and you should realize that you will satisfy it if you do good; but if, on the contrary, you do evil, it will lose its hope and its confidence in you." - Haile Selassie Paula Sutton: Please show compassion by freeing Shane and Josh who were detained by Iranian border guards during a recreational hike in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Anonymous Cindy Cooper Schumann: As individuals committed to the causes of a Free Palestine, social and environmental justice, as well as cross-cultural understanding, please appeal to the same sense of compassion and justice they embody by releasing them and clearing their good names. Sharyn Dreyer: Nobody in their right mind believes that these kids were spies. Anonymous: As someone who has had years of contact with with Iranians and who admires so many aspects of Iranian culture, from its rich history, its music, its culinary traditions, and people, I find this detention a stain on the reputation of Iran. Emma Doyle: Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer are two men who are innocent of all the "crimes" they have been charged with. These men's human rights have been violated with the unfair legal proceedings that have surrounded their detention. These two men have committed no crimes and do not deserve the treatment which they have had to endure. Our thoughts and prayers are with them for their safe arrival home. FREE JOSH AND SHANE!!! mary howells Martha Gibbons jean Gosse Laura R. Anonymous Marisa Raymond Malorie Sneed Anonymous: The Iranian government now has the opportunity to show compassion and release these two young men. Anonymous Erin Hauser: Get these boys home! Gabrielle Schleijpen: I have visited Iran twice and I deeply regret the fact that in sharp contrast to its beautiful citizens, the Iranian government is not able to live up to the standards of hospitality and justice, the distinct features of the great Iranian civilization . Samantha Hoskins Christopher Lay Elizebeth Townsend Steve Roddy: I implore the Iranian authorities to release Josh and Shane. Their inhumane and unjust detention has gone on far too long already. Taking another eight years of their lives can only compound this tragedy. I am one of countless Americans who are seeking ways to expand dialog and foster mutual understanding with the people and government of Iran. The treatment of Josh and Shane seems designed to further inflame tensions between our two countries. Please do the right thing--free both immediately. sarah smith: please release them Alex Wertheimer: I ask the government of Iran to please do not use these innocent young people as pawns in the political disputes between our country and yours. Anonymous Amy Youngs: Sending good energy to Shane and Josh and spreading the word to get them released. beth peterson Ralph Montilio Jessica Kalil Don Priest: Please help the world create a place where we can all live in. Your actions cause a reaction. Like any disagreement between two people, this can be settled as we would see it settled between our children. Release them and the world becomes a better place. Thomas Zehetbauer Anonymous: Please stop this madness. This serves no political purpose. Let these boys come home to their families. Steven Eger: To the people and authorities of Iran: Please consider the evidence in this case. To continue to detain these young men on charges they are clearly not guilty of is an injustice of great proportions. If Iran wants to continue to be considered a respected nation among the world community, you have to make this injustice right. There is no shame in admitting a mistake has taken place. There is however, great shame in hiding behind closed doors and pretending that you don’t know the truth – pretending you don’t realize these men are not guilty of these charges – pretending that your solders didn’t overstep their authority by enticing these three across an unmarked border – and pretending that there is anything for Iran to gain by leaving these men in prison one day longer. If you have any sense of justice – of what is right and true, then do the honorable thing and release these men today. Sara Wheeler Anonymous Dominique Callimanopulos: Whatever our politics and national agendas, we must recognize the sovereignty and humanity of the innocent individual. Please release these hostages in the name of progress and the advancement of compassion. Only by recognizing the needs and suffering of each human being will we unite in peace. Conor McClune Ellen Jane Gordon: these young men are not spies... Free them! Anonymous melissa lewis: when i was a child in ny 1970s, we had a school assembly for kidnapped us citizens...there was a yellow ribbon campaign. I remember our hopes for their release & safe return. I can not help thinking of it now. I will see that we tie such a ribbon on our tree until we learn of their safe retrn. I was placed in solitary several times without cause. Long story. If I were 2 tell it, which I have only limited, done so, I will only b lied about, further, beyond what I already have. My heart goes out to these brave people & i am sorry there are places to hike out there which have become dangerous. Anonymous Cassandra Duggan: Any country that treats foreigners this way shows how little respect they want their own people treated with abroad. David Oswald: Although I respect the sovereignty of Iran and other nations in the world, it is clear that these two young men are innocent. In fact, they appear to be extraordinary human beings who are doing work for the common good throughout the world. Their continued detention is not only unfair to them but unfair to those throughout the world that they surely would be helping if they were not detained. Anonymous Brendan Montague \"Baba Lover\" David Vink: It is my hope that these two guys alongside all the other wrongfully imprisoned people (including the Baha'is - Yaran) in Iranian jails are set-free! Iran's stance in the world can only last so long! Sara Joe Wolansky Alice Rogers-Mendoza: Please release these innocent people and allow them to return home to their family and friends. Anonymous: As a mother and sister I cannot believe how hard it must be to have a member of your family detained for so long without just cause. My prayers are with all of you. I was thinking that they would be found innocent and set free. The news made me so sad. Sarah Lisa Toscano Karen Robie John W Thomas, Jr.: Wish I could help more. It uis a shame on Iran and it's people that these innocent people's lives have been unnecesarily put on hold for so long. Michael Getz Elizabeth Miller Giles Walker: Please free these three innocent young people L.M. Posey Anonymous Eric Lehman: This verdict is not only unfair and unreasonable but it shows the extent to which repressive governments are willing to use innocent people as political pawns. My heart is with the hikers. I hope that they will soon be released. Rachel Legare Theresa burgess Anonymous Anonymous: We don't detain proven innocent people, regardless of their nationality. I would hope that the Iranian government would be that honorable. Anonymous Graeme Hunter: For the sake of global harmony please let these men go free. Anonymous shelley: there is no excuse for any of this. Using children as pawns? No matter how big the task. Get it done!!! There are No acceptable excuses;. Bring them home! Paul McDonald Jessica Schwalm Anonymous Anonymous: This is a travesty of justice and our country should not stand for it! I suggest we arrest I need a dinner jacket when he comes to NYC and offer him up for a swap. Anonymous JJ: Set 'em free! G.J.: Stop the travesty of justice...free these innocent young men! Kristen Oldham: There is so much brutality and torture in the world. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is no reason for these human beings to suffer anymore than they they already have and will in the coming days. Release the innocent! Scott RA Hanley fabienne elie Karen Clautice Anonymous: This is wrong. If it were your children that were traveling and detained for so long with a sentence of 8 years you would also wish for their freedom. Do the right thing and free them. Eight years of there life isn't a fair answer for them or the famlies that love them. Do the right thing. Jenny Emilie Leisa Schaim Vivi Rama: Justice now Colin Maeker Sherri Winkler: Please free Shane and Josh, they aren't criminals. The world is a worse place without THEIR humanitarian efforts. Becca Marcella Baugher Matthew Alexander: I hold absolutely no respect for the those responsible for keeping these young people in prison! As an American, I am deeply offended and irritated by the childishness that obliges resources, time and effort to keeping a few young people locked up because of the government's absurd delusions that these Americans are spies. Let them go home and return to their pedestrian, peaceful lives so they can try to salvage some sense of normal living after being forced through such an inhuman experience. Jill Stanton: Many Blessings for a safe and speedy return to the United States of America. Anonymous Hailey: Holding on to hope! Anonymous: They have not committed a crime. They need to come home! Robert Klinkel Cristina Santos Kim Cae: Do The Right Thing SEND THEM HOME Tait Mandler Lorraine Kerz: Please free these young men so that they may return to their families and loved ones now. The sentence of 8 years is unreasonable and unjust. Thank you Susan: May the right and human action be taken Caitlin: These people have done nothing wrong. Please send them home. There's enough bad blood right now, why create more? These people shouldn't even be detained, let alone for this long. Please think about their families and find the compassion in your heart to release them. Anonymous Susan Quinlan: The two years they have served should be more than enough to satisfy anyone's need to see them punished. They meant no harm, have already suffered a great deal, and should be released immediately. Anonymous: Please release the hikers and reunite them with their families. Show compassion. Clair Turner Lois Keller Christine Pickios: These 3 young people were naive and, sadly, the 2 left in Iran are being used by a hard-line, extremist government. A very dangerous game. Countries that Iran DOES have relations with need to put pressure on the "powers-that-be." Josh and Shane should be released immediately and permitted to resume their lives. No more hiking in Iran/Iraq! Anonymous Betsy Bleuer Katarzyna Pater Anonymous Jessica Wheeler Anonymous: Please please do more to bring Shane and Josh home. David in Tucson: It is well past time to bring an end to this terrible misunderstanding. It is clear to all that these three extraordinary young people were on an innocuous hike through their beautiful natural surroundings, and had no malicious intent. See them for who they truly are, and let them come home to their families and friends, and those of us who do not know them personally, but have great feelings and hope for their well-being and release. Thank you. Dennis Hice: I pray that these two gentleman will soon be released from the Islamic Republic of Iran. karen wilson Jen Galvin Anonymous: Freedom for Shane and Josh. Toni Bischoff: I respectfully ask you to show compassion toward Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. They meant no harm to the Islamic Republic of Iran and do not deserve to be detained any longer. Praying daily since the beginning for the safe return of these innocents. Jeremy Zorn: Please have mercy on these young people. They are environmental activists, writers, and teachers who hold no sympathy with U.S. foreign interests. Please grant them their innocence. Andrew Pedone Stephanie: Best of luck. joshua howard weizer: NOW Jonathan Maberry: Using our sons and daughters as pawns in a game of political chess is immoral. Eric White Beth Burris: Please release Josh and Shane, they have been unjustly held too long. Katie Benbow Aimee Weiss guj chhokar Holly A. Dawson Anonymous Justin anon: Release these innocent People! Jarrod Stafford: These men need to be released and sent back home to their families. Thinking and praying for them. Rebecca LaChance Anonymous Burke Stansbury: Free Shane and Josh! Riki Alexander Mia Blitstein: Please show compassion for fellow human beings, especially those who have done no harm to you. Release Josh and Shane back to their families now. Anonymous Cynthia w Karen Wheeler: Please show some compassion and free these 2 young men from prison now. Leah H. Johnson Lalita: Please free them! Ronald Sanson Stresser Junior: No Brasil também estamos torcendo pela libertação imediata de Josh e Shane. Não se pode confundir ativistas de direitos humanos com espiões. Que as autoridades iranianas tenham bom-senso, e mostrem ao mundo sua compaixão, libertando os rapazes imediatamente. As pessoas de bem agradecem! Anonymous: Please send them home!!! Sarah Jane Wilson: Please free Shane and Josh. They have suffered too long. Kandace Trodglen Michael Wiesner: This outrageous act of cruelty must be ended - it accomplishes nothing. Whatever injustices you believe the West has done, hurting innocent people is not the way to address them. Why not lead by example - show you can be merciful and kind - and end the suffering of Josh, Shane, and their families. The world will applaud you, and you will have the high ground in criticizing injustice in the West. Anita Hara Natalie Norment: Please set Shane and Josh free, Iran. They have done nothing wrong. You're making a big mistake that putting these innocent people in jail for something that wasn't their fault. All you're doing is asking for anger and hatred against you from the rest of the world. Casey Gardner Elisa McCool Theresa Bucher: I stand in solidarity with you. Stay strong. Anonymous: Free the Hikers! Elizabeth Kayla: Wishing, hoping, and praying for the release of these two brave, innocent and young men. My love to their family and friends - may you all find courage in each other and be buoyed by the knowledge that you have an army of supporters behind you. Lynn Kristen Stewart Anonymous Sarah Smith: It is astonishing that you would not release these men after 2 years and then decide to imprison them for EIGHT MORE for a simple mistake on a hiking trip. It is clear they have no connections to the U.S. government. I urge you to let them go at once. Debbie Posmontier Lucas Mangum Devon Bonady Anonymous Anonymous Claudia Holm Alyssa Blaker: free all three. Anonymous Terry Weyna RHONDA COHEN: Please free them. Anonymous Anonymous elicia holly: for the love of God, have mercy and let these boys go home. Anonymous: They both have been held long enough! Stop using them as pawns in your political games! Daniel Kaminsky Phoebe: The world has a strange obsession with caging birds that simply want to go on flying. Free Shane and Josh!! Linda Sunshine Laff Anonymous: PLEASE FREE Shane and Josh. They are two young innocent guys that are being wrongfully held. It's time to set them free so they can move on with their lives!!! It's the RIGHT thing to do. Karen Pomer Andrew Porter Michael Glenn Judy Konopk: Please do whatever it takes to get these innocent people released from jail and sent home. My heart is with you and your family Andrew Quitmeyer Peggy Zwerver: It has been too long. Please release these two innocent people and let them rejoin their families. Pamela Hockersmith Anonymous: Please free them! They are of no concern to you! They were just hiking! How would you feel if your loved ones were detained and you were not allowed to see them? Liz post Chase Scott Medved: I would also like to say that I hope the Iranian government will see it as in their best interest, as future serious players in world politics, to do the mature and right thing by releasing Shane and Josh immediately. Their continued detention does nothing but denigrate connections between Iran and the rest of the world. These two Americans should not be held as examples in continued tensions between the American government and the Iranian government. I would hope that some in the Iranian government will recognize this fact, and urge for this matter to come to a close-- with Shane and Josh being allowed to return home to their families as soon as possible. Michael Kellar Courtney geoff nestor: Having my own young adult children that also love to explore different parts of the world, I feel the pain and fear of these families. Iran, please see these kids for what they are. As innocent adventurers, and nothing more. They too love your people and respect and appreciate the many different cultures throughout this Earth. Please let them come home to their families. Kate Doyne Anonymous: Please, in the name of your own humanity, free Josh Bauer and Shane Fattal. I believe you know they are innocent of any spying. The actions of spies do not in any way at all correspond to the activities of these two men. The border between Iraq and Iran, is, again as I believe you know, i not clearly demarcated; perhaps it was the Iranian authorities who may have trespassed into Iraqi territory. Kelli Clifford Anonymous: RELEASE THESE TWO INNOCENT MEN! Anonymous: Please be good Humanitarians and release Shane and Josh as soon as possible. Lou Chain Sharon Espinoza- Gomez: They are in my thoughts often I pray they will be set free. God Bless Joy Malinowski Eliyahu Enriquez Anonymous: Please release them and let them reunite with their families. Davd Montgomery Tara Ahmadi Andrew C. Stone Rachel Bouttenot Chris Clinton Ellery Griswold Suzie Pope: "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and free-dom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality—not as we expect it to be but as it is—is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." (Frederick Buechner) Our freedom is tied together with Shane's and Josh's, please let love move through and release these boys back to their families and friends. Anonymous Yasmin Fedda Eden Brown Lauren Swick Sharon Mousavi Dormani: In the name of Allah, most merciful, release the prisoners to their mothers. Daniel Roggema Jan Keshen Viv: Free these young men! Sunni M.: Please immediately free these innocent young men, as they have committed no crimes against Iran! Max Maynard Beth miller Anandi Worden Noah Besen Amir: you will see soon that US will do his negotiations through Swiss embassy and they will make a deal($$$$ or exchange of IR prisoners in US jail) and release them....This sentencing is as ridiculous as releasing Sara Shourd on bail! Iranian officials knowing well that she will never come back for trial. Kay Weiser Catherine Boucher Martha Saaavedra: Shane and Josh should be freed immediately. Anonymous: News or their sentencing outraged me. These are kids just hiking. Does Iran want a fight over this? What a backwards thinking country. Our government needs to step in now. Vincent Vecchione Jackie Coleman Peter Van Huffel Anonymous: keeping hope for justice! shane & josh, you are not alone Anonymous Christina Funk Jim Bishop Anonymous Lois Menden: It has been two years too long for two innocent people.....please free them!! Sam West-Mensch: Whatever it takes! Mary E. Lynch Keila Jocelyne Houghton Emily Doolite Anonymous Stuart Howard-Smith: Josh, Sarah and Shane were hiking. There is nothing to indicate that it was anything more or less. I cannot imagine three more unlikely spies. The idea would be rediculous except for the fact that Iran has given out a sentence of 8 additional years. Two years was too long. They are innocent, free the hikers. Jen Flewelling: Please find it in your hearts to free Josh an Shane. They have done nothing wrong and should not be part of political hate. Elissa Banfill Ms Lynne Fisk: Please try to understand, these two gentlemen DID NOT INTEND TO VIOLATE ANY OF THE LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAN and so they should be RELEASED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING THIS AS A VIABLE RESOLVING OF THIS ISSUE..... Shelley Moore: Please let these innocent men go. The world is watching. patricia mccaskill: Their detention is arbitrary and inhumane, free Shane and Josh! Kathy Glass: Please free Shane and Josh. They have served enough time for hiking. They are innocent! raheleh: Please free the young hikers Tyler Lacovara: You guys are doing a great thing, you have my complete support! Lets get these guys back on American soil right away Anonymous Hollie Gajewski: PLEASE I beg of you to think of the mothers of these men. Have compassion and bring their release NOW. Thank you!!! Caris Nunez Charles R. Barringer Rick Topper: The government of Iran has long since made its point. It's now time to act on its humanitarian impulses and free Josh and Shane. Jamie Kouri Lydia: I have had Josh, Shane and Sarah and their families in my thoughts and heart since this incident occurred. lisa mcgee Kellen Paine Anonymous: Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Josh and Shane, stay strong. Anonymous: Free Josh and Shane now. They are innocent of any crime and need to set free immediately. Man's inhumanity to man can end with the Iranian government releasing these men today. felicia darling: Please send these hikers back to the US. They are innocent; they are just kids who made a mistake. They are not criminals or spies. Anonymous Matthew Whitnall Grayson G: Peace in the world will lead to a far better future then the hate and turmoil that occurs in the world today. Jessica Greenfield: Please free Josh and Shane. Maggie Horton-Brande Vince Mooney Lorraine Raymond: Please show some compassion and release Shane and Josh. Anonymous: Easily primal freedom taken Extreme the violence chosen To express the futile power In clashes of ideal believer Governments in high level battle Convey not the voice of its kind peoples Please listen to their mothers aching Please forgive them for crossing Deborah Rocha Chuck Coleman: It's time for the Iranian regime to show some mercy and compassion, in addition to not jailing people on trumped-up charges! Joseph Martz Diane Holland: Send them home now! Robynn Bliss: Please release Shane and Josh immediately. They've suffered. Their mothers have suffered. Their families have suffered. Please extend mercy. Anonymous Anonymous: It is time to release Shane and Josh. Anonymous Robyn Johnson Emily Beth Silverman Ben Greenberg Bridget Clark: Please free Shane and Josh, they are innocent! Erin Read Anonymous Jay Schaffner Terry Surinsky Anonymous: this is an outrage - that they can get away with this! Susan Zorn David Wolf Anonymous: Please call for the immediate and unconditional release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. Their detention constitutes a violation of their human rights according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9, which states: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile." Though relations between Iran and the United States have often been tense, I am deeply saddened to see that Iran has chosen to "make examples" of these innocent young people. Surely, it would be of greater benefit to both countries and to our nations' relationship to one another if Shane and Josh were freed and safely returned to their waiting and worried families. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are innocent of all crimes; please uphold their human rights and let them come home. Thank you very much for your time and attention to this urgent matter. We look forward to your reply and public statement regarding this important case. Mira Schwartz Jennifer Houghton: Please treat these people with fairness and allow them access to justice so they can regain their deserved freedom. kurt boylstein: free them! Jon Gralnick May Selby: sending wishes for a peaceful release for shane and josh Shani Kiczek: Please pardon these young men of the crimes for which they have been convicted and sentenced...in the spirit of peace and forgiveness. Send them home to their loving friends and families who have been keeping a two-year vigil since their detainment. Send them home to their country that is just now fully awakening to their plight since the sentencing. The eyes of the world are upon these two men...global hearts are full of love for them and there will be collective global respect for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran when they demonstrate clemency and release Shane and Josh. Robert H: Yet again, the only way Iran can get world attention is by mock trails and holding hostage people with different beliefs. This attempt to distract the world from a nuclear armed Iran and its own people fed up with this form of government will only back fire against them. Please free them - Thank You Pernille Hald Kevin Carducci Kimberley Motley: Hello I am an American Attorney who also practices law in the Middle East as a litigator. I think that although Iranian Law and Afghan Law is slightly different there are several important similarities with the two legal systems in terms of criminal cases. For the appeal I would like to offer my assistance to Attorney Shafiee for the appeal and the accused persons pro bono and in particular with the defense statements that will need to be filed for the appeal. I feel particularly moved with their situation and legally it needs to be fought in the best way possible while considering cultural roadblocks within the judiciary. christina m White Anonymous Anonymous H Maxwell Joseph Anonymous Rosalind Kichler Jaime Manuel Revollo Jr. Danielle Landy: Please release these peaceful human beings Penelope Cooper-Kelley: Josh and Shane, sending you love, light and hope. Peace be with you. Mollie Binkley Kari Knabe sylvia Natalie Jenna Greenfield: Please release Shane and Josh Kelly Land Jennifer kochanskijenni Abigail Leeder Theresa Chikezie: It's so tragic what has happened I will continue to pray and fast that your nightmare will end Ira Thomson: This is a clear and cruel violation of human rights that needs to be stopped immediately Valerie Kathryn Heyward Megan Corning Anonymous Charlie Saxton Gillian Smith: Shane and Josh are innocent of wrongdoing and the world is watching their plight. The people of the US and the people of Iran have the same hopes and dreams, and they do not include harming innocent people. Emily Brochin Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous FátimaAndrade: Please free them!!!!! David Wilson: The current Iranian regime has a history of abducting Americans and holding them hostage. Anna Sara Johannes Zipperer: Set them free to show that you are on the side of justice not of injustice. donna puopolo: show forgivness and let them free Patricia Buß Laura Lauren Amir Weg Jessica Lawson Troy Hill Andrew Gladstone-Highland: This sounds like a nightmare, and I hope that it ends very soon. richard moskowitz j: Please treat the young Americans how you would want your young children treated, hopefully with respect and dignity. Please release them. Rachel Hope julia earle Vanessa Bonfe: I do not feel that the United States is doing enough to get them out! What are the two senators from Minnesota doing? Diana Julia: Sounds like a terrible situation. I hope these innocent hikers can come home soon. Anonymous Mikael Ahkoila Cathy Carroll Susan Mary G-H Estella Beard: My Prayers are with everyone involved in this matter. Especially, to those who refuse to release the boy. I am praying and hoping that they reconsider and let them both go SOON! Anonymous Mathew Augusteyns: This affects every one of us. Sarah Tranum Irina Ceric: from Toronto, Canada Nancy Kimmes Paul LaTour Erin Hawkins Gina Vieweg: Keeping these boys in prayer. Lord, bring them home. Anonymous Trevor Gulje Tuvy Le Manuela Grady Anne Colucci Anonymous: My heart grieves for these young people and their families and friends. I am convinced they meant only good. I am convinced they meant no harm. Steven A. Dolgin Joshua Hyman: Best of luck to all of you! Alexandra Milaychev: This is outrageous. Sandra Tarbet: please release these individuals. Anonymous: Putting hope in the inhumane and lawless Iranian government is useless and a waste of time. Theyve been jailed for 2 years now and are looking at perhaps another 8 years. Perhaps Iran would reconsider releasing the 2 innocent american travelers if, the names, photos and addresses of all Iranians with U.S. student visa's were posted all over the web so Americans can use the information as needed. What if these Iranians photos were posted all over student campuses and around neighborhoods they reside. These students would not benefit from the educational opportunity they were given by the United States of America if other students are constantly harassing these young and innocent Iranians. Sounds messed up right! Iran what your doing is beyond messed up and ridiculous. It shows the class and integrity of the Iranian Government that the world has become to know and be digusted by. I've personally already seen a small group of Iran students get harrassed and spit on at my campus because of this international incident. This whole incident could easily be resolved by releasing the 2 innocent and caring hikers to be with their families and continue their promising careers. America has allowed Iranians to migrate over to pursue American jobs, start businesses and allow your children to attend American colleges and universities. Remember there are more Iranians in America than there are Americans in Iran. Iran you can play your tough man game a little longer I assume, but the entire world knows your weak and looks down upon you with pity. Iranian Government, please think about what you are doing with more logic and compassion if not for the 2 american hikers but also for your Iranian citizens inside the United States of America right now. Eventually Iran Americans will be harrassed everywhere they go. Theres no reason to create a bigger international incident or cause parents to shed more tears over their beloved children, american or iranian. Anonymous Carmen Hicks Giovanni Vassallo: Free Josh & Shane Now! This unwarranted illegal imprisonment is unbefitting a great nation such as Iran. Eileen Fay Chelsea Clifford Brita Cynthia Browne: I am extremely grateful that Sarah has been able to return to the US but hope daily that the same mercy and compassion will be shown to Shane and Josh, all equally innocent. Please, these two young men do not deserve eight years in prison for an accidental stray into a different country. Hugh Swindells ellen benedek: My prayers are with you. Anonymous Anonymous: This is barbaric, I hope these poor men are released soon. Our government needs to be doing more to bring them home! Farah Shamsi Deena: Please send Josh and Shane Home. Sue Hobart Jill Petraglia Parsons Anonymous Wendy Cohen: Show the world you are a compassionate nation and treat these young man as you would want your own citizens treated in a foreign land.Please send them home to their mothers now. Will Etling Mitchell Dallas: Please send them home I can't imagine how much their families miss them! Anonymous Paola: Please free them! Nobody deserves what they're going through. Justice please! Wendy Osterweil Kathleen Moore: Please release Shane and Josh without further delay. Simone Maganzani Jared Saft Anonymous: It is unbelievable just how wrong this whole situation is. Anonymous Anonymous: LET THEM GO! Stubbs Anonymous Tony Stohne Jessa Boehner Brook Charnoe Elizabeth Boehm Kevin: All humans have the right to live their lives and not be used as a pawn in a politcal game. Chayim Goldberg: let them go! Anonymous Michael Norquest Anonymous: Iran has nothing to gain by keeping these three people and if there is something they want from the United States, using these three innocent people only reinforces the notion that if their country wish to be taken seriously, then they need to handle political agendas in a humane, professional, legal, and more direct way. Iran needs to do the right thing which and release them, which would THEN reinforce a possibility of Iran showing some good will and reasonableness in negotiating and working with their country in the future. C.KILMARTIN Valerie a king ALAN WALLACH: Two young men should not be sent to jail for years on trumped on charges They made an innocent mistake. They've already been in jail for two years. Release them now. Matthew Eckhoff Angela Rohacek Anonymous Holly Knight: These two young men are not the enemy. They are peaceful souls who do not mean any harm. Please have mercy on them and return them to their families. They have suffered so much already. Peace be with you. Peace be with all of us. Carol Hayman Nancy K D Lemon Hannah Jon Eddison Jim Doherty Leslie Zolnik Maureen McCue: This arbitrary detention gains Iran nothing but a reputation for inhumane behavior. The world's sympathies lie with the two young men and not with the government holding them. Regina Silverio John D. Bagley Greg: Any Americans "backpacking" anywhere close to the Iranian border are freaking stupid, and deserve what they get. Anonymous Jennifer Lauruol Isabelle Anderson Mindy Stallings: Please release Shane and Josh to return to their families and loved ones. anthony hack Anonymous: I personally know Sarah, Shane, and Josh. They are not spies; they are political activists, journalists, and environmentalists. Shane and Josh need to come home now. Melissa Strickler Tricia Hedglin Anonymous Ben Brangwyn: There are lots of westerners whose sympathies lie with our brothers in the Middle East rather than our brothers in Washington. Please move quickly to letting these two go and helping them get on with alerting others to the dangers of western imperialism. Thanks in anticipation. Inna Ozerov Anonymous: Iran, show the world you descent and human. Free Shane and Josh. Anonymous: Please show compassion for the innocent hikers and their families and release them now. Farzana Doctor Anonymous Rebecca Dare and Bill Opfermann: Show compassion, please. Anonymous: This breaks my heart,they hav done nothing intentionally wrong,let them come home to their families.they hav been mistreated in so many ways Noel Dalberth: Free Jason and Shane! judith ackerman Serre: I am consdering the two men to be only hikers. One day on jail is an injustice. so, freedom for them now ! Jordan Asam Marcel Huguenin: Please allow these young men to return safely to the United States. Anonymous Erwin Mcklunk: I think they did it, definitely spies, way to stay on your toes iran. Odette Krause: Please free these innocent hikers it would be the humane thing to do. They need to ask themselves "WHAT WOULD JESUS DO!" GOD BLESS ALL OF THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THIS VERY TRYING TIMES. Roz Walden: Please free Shane and Josh they deserve to be free and back home with there family. Tricia Hobson: From South Africa I appeal to have these young men freed and not to be used as political pawns when they are innocent of all crimes, don't perpetuate mistrust and hatred. Carol Rudling: Keep the faith! Ann: please let them go!live through love.Build bridges not walls. Jenna Lalande Katie Foster Stephne Goosen: We in South Africa support the release of these two innocent men, please release them. You are all in our prayers God bless. Paul Mercurio Beata Slawow: It has been to long and justice needs to be done!!! Anonymous: Please free the hikers. With hope, from South Africa. Susan Torgrimson: It would be wonderful if these honorable young men could be reunited with their families and have the chance to move forward with their lives. Many people around the world watch, wait & pray that the Iranians will show their compassion by releasing Shane & Josh. Anonymous Anonymous Jennifer Durham: I sincerely hope the Iranian government can find some compassion for these wrongfully imprisoned, innocent people, and that they will soon be freed to start rebuilding their lives. Bill Magee Mary Sherman: Please free these two young men! Ingrid Sigmund Amber Morris Amanda Watkins Jelena: Please set them free and send them home. Val Walkey: Val Walkey, South Africa - this is disgraceful - just using them as pawns Lea Reynders Tamara Berdofe Juliet Hartley: This message comes from South Africa: I watched Sarah on Oprah yesterday and was completely stunned by the story. Imagine how awful it must be to know you are innocent but no one will listen. I only hope that your mission to get Shane and Josh freed is successful. My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Keep strong and don't stop fighting for their justice! Emily Allen: To shane and Josh.. Stay strong , much love. Anonymous: I always wanted to visit Iran, but this is rather offputting. How did this situation get so out of control? The idea of swopping the hostages for 11 Iranian prisoners is really silly. Anonymous Dane Reese Patricia Uvalle: Please release Shane and Josh, the have been robbed of 2 years of their life already. These 2 years seems like more than enough time to pay for the crime of traspassing. They are excellent human being, and we need more people like them on this Earth. Ellen Foster Elizabeth Rinaldi Cassie: Shane and Josh have been detained for far too long. They have done nothing wrong. Please release them and send them home now. Please. Anonymous Anonymous Ella Hansen Samuel Tia Dawn Pickard: will continue to believe God is in control and not man.I pray for there release soon Nikky Lindsley: the world needs more people like Sarah, Shane, & Josh !! free them from the restraints that stop them from continuing on the most humanitarian of life paths in the hopes of bringing about a much needed change in the world ! Rafael Gaino Paris Gideon Daniel Melanie Aufrichtig: This is extremely unjust. These people did nothing wrong and should be freed to live their lives. Theresa Malphrus Welford: Please free these two young men. Your compassion and humanity will be greatly appreciated ... all around the world. Vivian Thompson Dana A: Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have done as much as we as Arabs can ask for the betterment of our people, our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and in Iraq. Is this how we repay them? By detaining them in prison for walking around? Free the hikers, with a sincere and heartfelt apology for wasting precious months of their lives. Russell Vegh Anonymous: I believe that the two men are being treated unfairly and should be allowed to be freed and sent home to there family and friends the Iranian government have no need to hold these men in prison they should release them and drop the charges they have made up against them i believe they had done nothing wrong but go for a walk so why arrest them so FREE THEM Anonymous Anonymous: Free the hikers. Anonymous: Please release these men. saif hasan: mr. president .thr is a limit of everything .u feel tht USA is d enemy of islamic regime of Iran .but y u r showingg off ur hatred towards them by detain two innocent American hikers shane josh dont u hav any heart or compassion hav u lost every single sensitivity which makes a two legged animal we called HUMAN dont u hav any respect left 2 response 2 d urge n cry of thousands we r continuously requesting u 2 release our beloved shane n josh since july 2009 .how could u b so lunatic n arrogant tht not 2 give any positive response to our urge for how long we muslims hav 2 carry d burden of being suspected as a terrorist insensitive human 4 watever u ppl do .yes u do the mistakes n we hav 2 b questioned .its YOU.um not gona urge u 2 release our shane n josh bcoz i kno tht wont help .u r deaf u not gona listen .will u but remember every lunatic has 2 face its final day whn they r kicked by thier own ppl .i pray to Allah on that day u will find a cell in tht jail 4 u whr our beloved r kept unjustly for yrs now.Allah Hafej Angel Terry Sandy Ingram Anonymous Tonya Dean: Free the hikers! Anonymous Elizabeth Farrell Anonymous Vanessa RK Sara Mitzenmacher Ariel Susie Hargreaves Rhainne McRae: On behalf of the highest good of all mankind, please do the right thing now. Dana Jack Chr Briana McCann Francois van Heerden: It is better to be remembered for what you have built up, not for what you have broken down. Release the two men and you will be remembered for the good that you have done.... After almost two years, there is no evidence that they have meant any harm? Anonymous: Hope for peace and justice in Iran Lesley Shannon: Hello from Ireland, I respectfully ask you to reconsider releasing Josh & Shane at your earliest convenience & to reconsider the sentence recently given to the young men. The world is currently experiencing such global unrest & I do think you could set a higher example of humanity by releasing these young men without them sustaining any further harm that may have come to while in the custody of the Evin Prison so that may continue to live their live in peace, back in the embrace of their families & friends. People make genuine mistakes all the time. At the very least, while you reconsider, it would be nice if you could afford the young men some more contact with their loved ones. Freedom is their pathway to home, Freedom is your pathway to opening up your country that is steeped in the most amazing history and share it with people more.. God bless & Thank you for taking the time to read this. Best wishes from Ireland. David Woodcock Martin Pospisil Tracey: If it were not for me watching the Oprah show (which is about a year behind in broadcasting) I would never have known about this at all as I don't recall reading it or hearing about it in the South African press. I am shocked that so little is being done to bring it to the world's attention and my heart goes out to Shane and Josh. Please allow them home - show the world your compassionate side, have mercy that the same may be returned to you and yours one day Maria: Please release these two innocent people who have so much good to do and don't deserve to be in prison!! Anonymous Anonymous Alice Shartava Anonymous: I am not American or Iranian, but as a citizen of this world, I respectfully ask the Iranian Government to release these two innocent human beings. arno!do garcia Kate Zephyrhawke: Their imprisonment is horrible. Why isn't this getting more attention in the media? Kent Hoover: As long as Iran continues it's path, the soul of its nation and people will never be free. Anonymous deniz okten Lisa Salvi Lisa Potthoff Wilhelm Babernits: Please let them go NOW! Anonymous: To sentence these two young men to eight years in a foreign prison is unbelievable. They are clearly NOT spys and are being used as pawns against our government. The injustice is beyond comprehension. May God be with them and bring them home to us and their families soon. Mikhaila Goldman robert dresdner: Let them go! Anonymous Jeannie Hartley: Please free these dear people and return them into the arms of thier loved ones. These hikers are innocent and have been incarcerated unjustly for far too. Long. Michele DuRand: If these were my children- I would be devastated Maria E. Kiss: The world is watching with hope that the Islamic Republic of Iran will act in good faith in this matter. Lyn Gottschalk: They are not spies...just American hikers. Let them come home to their families please! Cindy Sargent: FREE THEM!! Anonymous: Please release them and send them back home to their families where they belong! zoraida bozza Lou Lemieux: Lets make war,tryanny, opprerission,poverty,obsolete! Craig Willis Katherine Davis Nathan Broom: May all of our actions result in greater understanding among us. And may Shane and Josh soon be free. -Jacksonville, Oregon, USA. Elizabeth Hanlon-Drumheller: I pray for the release of all of you.I believe it was an accident and accidents do happen.you guys did nothing wrong.they deserve to be home free to live there lives.Brooklyn Center Minnesota supports you.keep your heads up and i know you will be freed:) Todd Mendelson Anonymous Dahlia Farouk: Please release them and send them home. They have been detained without committing any crime. They've been through a lot and it's so unfair to keep them any longer. jennifer Miller-antill: My hopes and prayers are with Josh and Shane and their families and friends! May they be home very soon! Susan Esslinger TOM & NANCY BASALYGA: WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOUR SAFE RETURN HOME. Lynne Kraus Bryan Scilacci: Hoping for a prompt release !! Nathalie Mancebo MrT: These three fools, with the world to choose from go hiking in what is practically a war zone. Plus the give a terrorist state propaganda and 1.5 million dollars. My tax dollars are already being spent on these clowns. Why would I reward stupidity. Mark kathy sharp: I have been praying for both of you! God bless each of you. I hope you come home safe and soon. Anonymous Pat Collins: It could have happened to any of us. Lauren Alden: I met SHANE BAUER in 2007 working as a tenant activist and organizer in San Francisco, California. His commitment to the elderly, the disabled, and impoverished population unable to obtain adequate housing was extraordinary and impressive. Pleas return Josh and Shane to their families and friends so that they may continue their remarkable work helping others. Thank you. Jen: Please show compassion as fellow humans on this earth and release Josh and Shane. Thank you. Peggy Michael Monica: Please, in the name of humanity and civility, free these boys. Anonymous Jeanne Patterson: Please send these young men home to their families now. Lori Dove: Josh & Shane, you are not alone! Will not stop fighting for you til you are safely on US grounds! Dont give up hope! We love you!! Fran Kirsch Anonymous: Our thoughts and prayers are with you in the hope that you will be home SOON! jonell jel\'enedra: Please show mercy and send these children who made a simple error, home to their families. Josh and Shane, you and your families are in our daily prayers. Please hang on! Lindsay MacBurney: Please let the innocent men go. Let them live their lives! Melissa Mari-Dale Michael Lonergan: Please release these two innocent men without further delay. Anonymous: Have mercy as we pray to the good, all powerful and great ALLAH Anonymous Anonymous: Please do the right thing. Please do the honorable thing. Please release these innocent young men. Anonymous: We hope the two men still there can keep their strength for when they are released. We are thinking of you in Dublin, Ireland. Anonymous: hope for the family sake, your boys will be with you soon Katherine Sheeran: Please free these innocent people. CLAUDINE CAREY: THANK YOU FOR THE RELEASE OF SARAH THESE MEN ARE GOOD MEN PLEASE LET THEM GO LOVE FROM IRELAND TO YOU GUYS Eve Fischer Anonymous: SET THEM FREE Helen McLeane: Know that people all around the world are watching and looking forward to hearing that Shane and Josh are finally free. I'm sure this will mean that Sarah can truly feel free too. Thoughts and prayers are with you all sent with love from Ireland Paul Louis Macchi Anonymous: Please give Josh and Shane the Freedom they deserve and let them come home to American!! Iman Bakker: never ever give up,always have faith good will come outof bad situations Tara Linton Anonymous: Never give up hope.x William Bromwich: Hospitality and kindness to visitors from other countries and cultures is a time-honoured tradition in every continent of the world. Let these hikers go free. There is no reason for them to be in prison. They are a danger to nobody. katy wallace Anonymous Robert Lewis: It's time to free Shane and Josh. Two young men who were entrapped to cross the border into Iran by Iranian military border guards and have spent two years falsely accused of spying. Please free them today! Kyla Vangelder Anonymous Ann Donnellon Dave Brown: Free them now! Anonymous: PLEASE, this has gone on just way toooooo long! SO unfair! ENOUGH....! what is up with this world?? Jeff Thorsby Andrea Diaz: Please keep these hikers safe under you watch, they are peaceful activists and would do the same for any in their care. Free these men who have committed no crime, Every government should not imprison those who have done no harm. Anonymous Kate Jackett: Please free Shane and Josh. It is the humane thing to do. It is the right thing to do. We implore you. Thank you. KaTrina Greene: What bright shining stars these young people are. God bless and comfort them and their mothers. God willing this love and hope will change the hearts of them that hold these innocent men captive and we will see them returned to their homes. Anonymous: I will pray for you both every night. We stand in solidarity with you all. God bless you and keep you. Richard Balser: Please do the right thing for them and their families. Thank you. Philip Mizzi: How can a state treat innocent people this way? It is surely unislamic. Lisa: My thoughts are with Shane and Josh - please set them free! Anonymous Debra Hollenback: Allow the families of these innocent men to be reunited. Let the world see you are a just nation. Anita Meyer Anonymous: Free Shane and Josh PLEASE! Wendy W Contos: The longer you delay, the worse you look to the rest of the world. Tim Adams Sabrina: PLEASE free Shane and Josh! You would not want this done to your family or friend! Shane, Josh, and Sarah, my heart goes out to you! Dr. Elizabeth Boswell: We are praying for your safe return to your family. Dena Justin Theriot: Free people who have committed no crime. Exploring our world is not a crime! Jen Tripathy Fiona O\'Shaughnessey: Please free Josh and Shane. They have been imprisoned far too long for trespassing. Hopefully their release will improve relations between Us and Iran Li Keller keith yetter Alexios Antypas tammy smith: Please allow these young men to return safely to the United States. Renae Hellman: Stop playing games. Send them home now. Anonymous Cory Franks: Indeed this sort of action demonstrates the kind of diplomacy you have with the United States. Let them go, they are human beings with no ill will. Understand that and take a hard look at your actions. I speak on the behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Kees Uiterwaal: Holy Quran, Surat 60: "Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly." Matt Pajor Lisa Bell susan langston: Please do not delay any longer the freedom of these two hikers from the United States. I respectfully urge you to reunite them with their families. Traci Downs Anonymous: please free these two young men - they do not deserve to be in captivity this way Pelagia Halliwell: free these young men NOW! they do not deserve to be in prison they have done nothing wrong amy: please free josh and shane now god bless them, sarah and all their families Anonymous Anonymous: Please free Josh and Shane, they're families and friends miss them very much and they have done nothing wrong. Anonymous Michele Loyo Derek Johnson: Obama needs to put some pressure on Iran for the release. Teresa Skrzypczak: I want you to be freed but I am not willing to negotiate with your captors. Randy Collins: Dear Iranian government authorities, Please clear Sarah, Shane, and Josh of all charges and please stop the trials. Free Shane and Josh as you freed Sarah and let us have peace and truth. Anonymous: FREE THEM NOW! Anonymous Moya kearney Luana Poma Jaime: i just wanted to make everyone aware of this really offensive site saying that shane, josh and sara should have been executed and some really other horrible stuff. http://www.bill-d.com. this guy needs to be stopped. Anonymous Valerie Bagley Pip jones Kellie breen Anonymous: Knowing that soon, all will be free! :) Matilda Höglund from Sweden: I'm from Sweden and people around the world must stand up together to free the hikers. I saw you on the Oprah-show and was shocked! It really affected me how cruel people can be. I will pray for all three families! Please free the hikers NOW!! Hendi de Jager Ian: They were only on a recreational hike! Free Shane and Josh! Anonymous Irene Rojas Padilla: I am from Mexico. I was reading the news when I found the story of Shane, Sarah y Josh. Nearly three years ago, the sister of my mother disappeared and was found dead days later. She was killed by a man she did not make any damage. Then, I understood deeply and painfully what is injustice and the damage it causes. My aunt can not go home with his family, but they can. Please let them free, let them come home... Thanks for reading my words.
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