The couple held in Iran needs ‘quick’ UK action, says Nazanin’s husband

The UK government must do “more immediately” to help a British couple to be held in Iran, as it was done to secure the release of Nazanin Zagri-Retcliffe, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said Is.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested in January, but News of their detention on unspecified security charges, only emerged earlier this week,

The 52 -year -old couple were on a motorbike trip worldwide and planned to stay in Iran for only five days.

Mr. Ratcliffe, whose wife was arrested in Iran in 2016 and was not released until six years later, said the threats of the country’s visit would be “very clear” if the foreign office advice “Risks of taking hostage” Refung

Britain’s Foreign Office advises against all traveling to Iran, saying that British and British-Irani are “significant risk of arrest, inquiry or detention” to the British and British-Irani.

The British having a British passport or connection to “may be enough for Iranian authorities to take you into custody”, says.

The Foreman family stated that the couple’s custody was a “disturbing situation” and they are deeply focused on ensuring their safety and good during the effort “.

Responding to the case, Mr. Raycliffe told the PA News Agency: “My heart goes out for them, and I hope they are not a long time, and that the government is not a long time, and that the government is not a long time to react more immediately in our case Is capable.

“I think the risk will be very clear for the people if Iran’s advice to UK’s advice talked about the risks of hostage. Doesn’t you travel there with a good heart.

Posting on Instagram before being detained, Mrs. Foreman had a trip to Iran, against the advice of the Foreign Office, and the risky and “slight scary” for Pakistan.

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Mr. Raycliffe said that the “highest priority” for the UK government should ensure that Mr. and Mrs. Foreman was not being kept in solitary imprisonment, as it was “important that they do not feel alone”.

He said that the process of a court in the case may be done soon, but said: “It is not a real court … It will be a form of cruel theater to attract the government’s attention. And it will hurt a lot. I really hope that they will be fine.

The UK Foreign Office did not directly respond to Mr. Ratcliffe’s comments when contacted by BBC News, but said it was providing consular assistance to two British citizens detained in Iran and is in touch with local authorities.

The British-Irani-Irani citizen Ms. Zagri-Ratkaliff was arrested in April 2016 at an airport in Tehran and accused of spying the allegations, which she refused.

Mr. Raycliffe went on hunger strike twice as part of his campaign for the release of his wife.

After the UK government agreed to settle a loan of £ 400 meters back in the 1970s, it was eventually freed and returned to Britain in March 2022.

Mr. and Mrs. Foreman were going to Australia on their journey around the world and crossed Armenia on 30 December in Iran. He planned to stay in Pakistan till 4 January.

After staying in the cities of Tabriz, Tehran and Isfahan with a tour guide, he traveled to Karman in East-Central Iran, but never checked in his hotel.

Iranian officials have not said what the couple have been accused.

In a series of social media posts before taking into custody, the pair described their happiness when they were in Iran.

Smt. Foreman, a life coach with a doctorate in psychology, said that she was doing “a wonderful time”. Her husband Craig, who is a carpenter, spoke of the “lovely people” of the “cute country”.

The couple left East Sussex in 2019 to start a new life in Andalusia, Spain and appeared in 2022 in an episode of Channel 4’s A New Life in the Sun to showcase their lives as exits. .

Mrs. Foreman has been reported to have a research project on her visit to Australia, asking people what it means to be human and what is a good life.

He was due to his conclusions at a conference on positive psychology at Brisbane in July.