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British couple jailed in Iran: 'We're likely to be here for a long time'

www.bbc.com·Caroline Hawley·about 1 month ago
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6 hours ago Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Watch: Craig and Lindsay Foreman speak to the BBC's Caroline Hawley via their son, Joe Lindsay Foreman says she is keeping sane by reading, doing laps of the prison yard and, when she can, practising yoga. Exercise, she says, has always been her "salvation". But after 16 months in jail in Iran, Lindsay admits she is struggling. "I'm dealing with the realisation that we're likely to be here for a long time," she tells me over the phone from Iran's notorious Evin jail. Lindsay, a 53-year-old life coach, and her husband Craig, 52, were on a round-the-world motorcycle trip when they were arrested on suspicion of espionage in January 2025 - charges they adamantly deny. 'We're wasting our lives in here' After living through the recent war in Iran, the pair, from East Sussex, are now facing the painful reality of a 10-year prison sentence handed down against them in February. "I just feel that we're wasting our lives in here and rotting away," Craig says.…

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