Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer two American hikers, according to a state TV report Saturday were sentenced to eight years in jail in Iran, are a pair of friends who love to travel and be immersed in other cultures, according to their friends.
Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been in Iranian custody for two years since they and a third hiker, Sarah Shourd, were detained on spying charges. They had been hiking in the Iraqi Kurdish region and allegedly entered into Iran illegally.
Shourd, Bauer's fiancee, was released last year because of medical baises, but Fattal and Bauer face an extended prison sentence.
Bauer was performing as a freelance journalist and had been undertaking a yearlong visit to the Middle East at the time of their arrest.
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