Overview
- Lindsay and Craig Foreman of East Sussex were detained in January 2025 while traversing Iran on a round-the-world motorcycle journey.
- The family says the 10-year sentences followed an October hearing in Tehran that lasted about three hours and did not allow the couple to present a defence.
- UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called the verdict “completely appalling and totally unjustifiable” and pledged ongoing consular support and pressure on Tehran.
- Both are held in Tehran’s Evin prison, where relatives report prolonged solitary confinement, vermin, overcrowding and months without calls home.
- The family identifies Judge Abolghasem Salavati as having issued the ruling, as Iranian authorities depict the pair as spies who entered “posing as tourists,” while supporters intensify a public campaign for their release.