UK – BBC, Feb. 11, 2025
The son of two Britons imprisoned in Iran has met MPs and Lords to call for their detention to be formally recognised as arbitrary.
Joe Bennett met parliamentarians earlier to argue Craig and Lindsay Foreman, from East Sussex, were arrested without reason in January 2025.
Bennett said labelling their detention as arbitrary would make the case a diplomatic priority and stop “respecting a sham judicial process”.
The UK government said it continued to raise the case “directly with the Iranian authorities” and to provide consular assistance.
Bennett, from Folkestone, said that in prison “every day is hell” for the couple, who were accused of spying by Iranian authorities.
