It was July 31, 2009, when Sarah Shourd, 31, Shane Bauer, 28, and Josh Fattal, 28, were arrested near the Iran-Iraq border by Iranian police who said the three had crossed illegally into Iran. As the ensuing year unfolded, few confirmable facts emerged, but several variations of the story did.

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U.S. hikers near one year of imprisonment in Iran without charges