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AP Interview: Hiker talks of year in Iran prison
a closer look NEW YORK Her 410 days of solitary confinement in an Iranian prison were mostly cramped quarters and endless monotony. But Sarah Shourd chooses to savor the few moments of joy: a proposal from her boyfriend and a birthday celebration complete with a chocolate cake.
Shourd, her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, and their friend, Josh Fattal, were captured and charged with spying in 2009 while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border. Shourd talked about her experiences Thursday with The Associated Press in one of her first interviews since her release on Sept. 14 after officials in Oman mediated bail.
One of her happiest days, she said, was the celebration of her 32nd birthday last month. The men, who remain in Tehran's Evin Prison, had persuaded a guard into bringing her the cake and found a way to give her a whiff of liberty.
They talked her through an imaginary day that they called a "freedom walk" -- from waking up and having pancakes, to going to a lake, then walking to her mother's apartment. "It was beautiful," she said. "I cried."
Shourd tried to resist her imprisonment at first. She constantly yelled, cried or begged her captors for a phone call. She was confined to her 10-foot-by-5-foot cell.
Eventually, the three Americans were allowed to see each other, at first for 30 minutes each day, then for an hour, then for two.
The trio had local TV, including 15 minutes of English-language news every day. They received a bundle of letters from their parents and siblings about once a month. And they had books in English.
On one evening, Bauer asked Fattal to stay in their cell during their allotted time outdoors, so that the couple could have a moment alone.
The two sat on a rough wool mat, cockroaches skittering around them and dust filling the air. They held hands, and Bauer asked her to marry him. He made them engagement rings from two thin pieces of string.
"It's not what every person thinks of as romantic, but it was romantic for me," Shourd said.
And now, back on the outside, she feels some guilt, she said, but she pushes that aside. She learned in prison how to ignore negative emotions.
She thinks of the men, of the strong, supportive faces they put on when they learned only she would leave. She still doesn't know who paid her $500,000 bail, though she said an Omani official told her of an Iranian citizen who attempted to mortgage his home to pay it.
She wants the world to see Bauer and Fattal, who are passing long days in a cramped space.
Shourd met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York yesterday to plead for the release of Bauer and Fattal.
"I'm just going to keep pushing every minute for their release on humanitarian grounds," Shourd told ABC News outside a hotel after she and her mother, Nora Shourd, met with the president, who was in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Shourd called the encounter "a very gracious gesture and a good meeting."
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