UK – Independent, Jan. 03, 2026
It is a year since Lindsay and Craig Foreman were taken into custody in January during a world motorcycle tour and were later charged with espionage.
The son of a British woman detained with her husband in Iran has handed in a petition to Downing Street calling on the Government to do more to free them.
It is a year since Lindsay and Craig Foreman were taken into custody in January during a world motorcycle tour and were later charged with espionage.
The couple, of East Sussex, deny the allegations and are in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Ms Foreman’s son Joe Bennett was joined by former detainee Anoosheh Ashoori and Richard Ratcliffe, who fought a public campaign that involved two hunger strikes to have his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffefreed from Iran, at the steps of Number 10 Downing Street to deliver the 70,000-signature petition.
Mr Bennett, of Folkestone, Kent, told the Press Association: “It is the year anniversary of them being taken which is not something we want to celebrate but we are here to make sure there is as much publicity and pressure we can get.”
“We want public acknowledgement that it is completely barbaric they are being held on these charges of espionage, that they are not spies for the British state and they are going to do everything they can to get them home.
