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British Couple Gets 10-Year Iran Sentence, Faces Brutal Prison

5/1/2026

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Lindsay Foreman and Craig Foreman are serving a ten-year sentence in Iran’s Evin prison on espionage charges they deny.
The British Foreign Office calls their detention appalling and has arranged monitored calls to their son after they were moved to Tehran in July and placed in Evin prison.
They report unsanitary conditions, no medical care, frequent inmate violence, and that four of Craig’s cellmates were executed after televised announcements.

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Lindsay Foreman and Craig Foreman are serving a ten-year sentence in Iran’s Evin prison on espionage charges they deny.
The British Foreign Office calls their detention appalling and has arranged monitored calls to their son after they were moved to Tehran in July and placed in Evin prison.
They report unsanitary conditions, no medical care, frequent inmate violence, and that four of Craig’s cellmates were executed after televised announcements.