A documentary about the three American hikers detained by Iran provides new evidence that they were simply tourists and not spies and offers new insights into their lives in prison. "Free Shane and Josh", produced and directed by Jeff Kaufman, tells the story of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, three idealistic Americans who traveled to Kurdistan, the mountainous region of Iraq, in the summer of 2009 to hike and see the sights when they were detained and imprisoned by Iranian soldiers patrolling the border. Iranian authorities accused them of illegally crossing the border and spying. Shourd was freed on bail in September after nearly 14 months in a Tehran prison; her fiancé, Bauer, and Fattal were released September 21, 2011.
—Huffington Post