UN human rights experts demand release of British couple jailed in Iran
Key takeaways
- Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Free Lindsay and Craig Campaign.
- The couple were detained in January 2025 while passing through the country on a round-the-world motorcycle trip.
- They are now on hunger strike in Tehran's Evin jail, refusing food after phone contact with their family was cut off last month.
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Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Free Lindsay and Craig Campaign. They were sentenced in February and have lost an appeal UN human rights experts have called for the release of a British couple sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian jail over spying claims.
Dr Alice Edwards - the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - and Mai Sato, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, said proceedings against Lindsay and Craig Foreman, from East Sussex, had been marked by grave irregularities.
The couple were detained in January 2025 while passing through the country on a round-the-world motorcycle trip.