US hikers jailed in Iran make rare call to family
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Two American hikers held captive in Iran have called home for only the third time since their arrest nearly two years ago. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 28, told their families they had staged a 17-day hunger strike after they were stopped from receiving letters, the hikers' families said in a news release.
Bauer's mother, Cindy Hickey of Minnesota and Fattal's mother, Laura Fattal of Pennsylvania, began what they called a "rolling" hunger strike last Thursday out of concern their sons also were fasting. Hickey said her son's phone call was about four minutes and that he sounded "OK." "I was very glad to hear his voice," Hickey said Sunday. (AP)
