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And I thought it was from another prisoner in another cell and it just wouldn't stop. And all I could think is, 'When will they stop? There's nothing I can do to help this person. Can they please just stop? And I realized that it was me, that I had been screaming. And they showed me the wall. And there were streaks of blood on the wall.

I'd been beating at the walls until my knuckles were bloody. Sarah Shourd was freed in September for what the Iranians said were humanitarian reasons -- and a half-million dollar bail reportedly paid by the Sultan of Oman.

She wasted no time trying to free her friends. The two men had been were tried and found guilty of espionage, and sentenced to eight more years. But after some diplomatic maneuvering -- and a payment of a million dollars in bail money, again reportedly from Oman -- Bauer and Fattal also walked free. Reunited once again, Shourd and Bauer made it permanent: they were married a few months later, and -- along with Fattal -- wrote a book about their ordeal: "A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran" Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Today, Shourd and Bauer have both found work that allows them to talk about prisoners' rights -- in the U. In prison, he got a few letters from a junior high girlfriend, Jenny Bohrman, and allowed himself to hope that he would one day see her again. It was exactly the Jenny I envisioned. Please enter email address to continue. Dow Jones. By Pervaiz Shallwani. To Read the Full Story.

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