UK – BBC, Dec. 22, 2025
A British woman jailed in Iran for almost a year has spoken of the pain of separation from her family in a poignant Christmas message written in her cell.
“At a time when we should be connected, we find ourselves alone, down, dejected,” Lindsay Foreman wrote in a poem entitled A Sad Voice From Evin Prison – A Christmas Poem.
A recording of her reading the message to her son on the phone from a noisy prison corridor has been shared with the BBC. It is the first time her voice has been heard publicly since her arrest.
She spoke of a “family torn apart” and said that grief “has made a home from the hole in our heart”.
