Lindsay and Craig Foreman, the British couple imprisoned in Iran on spying charges, have issued a desperate plea for help, saying they feel abandoned by the UK. The pair want the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, to ‘step up’, describing how they feel ‘let down, alone and completely frustrated’.

It was reckless, and simply asking for trouble, to enter a country with a longstanding reputation for randomly imprisoning westerners (Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, anyone?) on trumped-up charges

It was reckless, and simply asking for trouble, to enter a country with a longstanding reputation for randomly imprisoning westerners (Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, anyone?) on trumped-up charges

Speaking in a recorded phone message from Evin prison in Tehran, Craig described life in a war zone. ‘We have gone from a challenging situation to a life-threatening situation… There is a serious lack of commitment for our safety.’It is heart-wrenching stuff. Evin prison is notorious for being overcrowded and unsanitary. Prisoners share cells infested with rats and sleep........

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