This Sunday, my brother Josh and his friend Shane Bauer are due to have their final hearing in an Iranian court, where they are falsely accused of espionage. It will be exactly two years since their capture on the unmarked border with Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq...

Last week, our families published information that has been gnawing away at us for many months: my brother Josh and his friend Shane Bauer have been beaten while in Evin Prison in Iran and feared that they would be executed shortly after their arrest nearly 23 months ago. Shane and...

In the last moments of my mom's hunger strike, she began writhing in pain. Sitting in our kitchen in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, she bobbed back and forth massaging her legs after 48 hours without food.

Today, our family marks 664 days of a form of torture no less visceral: the...

Thanksgiving feels empty with my brother Josh still sitting in Evin Prison in Iran for no good reason. Rather than wallow in his absence I want to reflect on some of the amazing people I'm thankful for. Without them living life amidst this peculiar international crisis would not be possible.

On July 31, 2009, my brother Josh Fattal was arrested by Iranian soldiers with his close friends Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer while they were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan near the poorly marked border with Iran. When Sarah was released last month, leaving Josh and Shane behind in Evin Prison...

Today is day 346. Iran, enough is enough! Making my brother Josh and his two friends Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd suffer in Evin Prison for nearly a year is wrong and needs to end.

To underscore this point, we are calling on...

Adapted from an article first published in Newsweek the week of November 14, 2009.

There are certain crises that always loom as possibilities: a chronic illness in the family, strife in a relationship, a car accident. To have a brother detained in Iran, with no way to contact...