UK – BBC, Sept. 09, 2026
The detention of a couple held in Iran “should shock people” as their time being held reaches over 600 days, their family has said.
The family of Craig and Lindsay Foreman said the wait for the couple to be returned has been “an incredibly long time”, after they were detained in January 2025 while on a motorbiking trip in Iran.
Supporters marked 614 days since their detention on Wednesday by taking part in a motorbike ride through London and delivering a letter to the Iranian embassy.
Lindsay’s son, Joe Bennett, from Folkestone, Kent, has called for “a pivot of approach”. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was working to provide consular assistance.
The East Sussex couple were sentenced in Iran in February this year to 10 years in jail over espionage charges, which they both deny, and remain in Tehran’s Evin prison.
Bennett said: “If we continue to do the same things that we’ve been doing for the last 20 months, then I’ll be standing here again in another 20 months saying the same thing.”
He said: “It should shock people that they are still there.”
