It is more than six months since Lindsay and Craig Foreman in Iran were held on accusation of espionage during a journey of your life – and their terrified family still does not know what circumstances they endure.
The British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman have held in Iran for more than six months after they have been arrested for accusation of espionage – despite the fact that their families are “not spies”.
The couple started what the adventure of your life should be and took a motorcycle trip around the world from Spain to Australia to learn what makes a good life, from forging connections and building strong communities.
The hectic four children of Lindsay and Craig have tireless campaign for their “generous and fun” parents of parents and are determined to do everything they can to bring the couple home.
But in their fear, the family knows very little about the circumstances with which Lindsay and Craig are confronted, but they believe that they are currently being held in Kerman’s prison. The couple would be transferred to the infamous Evin prison of Tehran at the beginning of June before Israeli strikes hit the facility.
Their children had no confirmation for weeks about the place of residence of their parents, including whether the planned transfer went through, or if they were even safe or alive – they have since told through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that they are in Kerman.
Craig’s son Kieran has described the situation of the family in the mirror as the feeling “as if you are falling into a well and you can’t get up” – because they are struggling with “limited” information about their mother and dad.
“We are limited in the information we get on the condition and we have been told that they are together in a rather small cell. We think they had a bed, but before they slept on the floor and apart,” Joe and Kieran told the mirror.
“They try to stay fit by running around that room in a figure of 8, but we know that Mama (Lindsay) once had problems with her back and Dad (Craig) did not go well either.”
The most important information we have about what the circumstances are in the Iranian prison system is from former hostages such as Nazanin Zaghari -Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori – which was released next to Nazanin in 2022 – who were held in Iran for six and five years respectively.
Anoosheh bravely gave a “glimpse” of what he passed on the mirror during his test and described his time in Evin prison as “unbearable”.
“The food was dirty and substandard, especially for those who could not afford to pay something better meals through the prison store,” he said. “The rooms were tight – about 15 people per room, although the number would rise considerably in times of crisis. We fought against constant contamination of bed bugs, cockroaches and even rats. Sometimes rat drops and body parts of cockroaches would even end in our food.
“Sanitary facilities was bad, especially during the COVID-19 Pandemie. Medical care was very lacking the so-called clinic was little more than a facade. Medicine was scarce. Prisoners had to trust loved ones to bring medicines, and part of it would be mysteriously missing before they reach us.”
The former hostage explained that “the regime created an environment of chronic pressure. Tensions ran so high that arguments and battles among prisoners became usual. I call it” passive torture ” – a method to indirectly cause suffering by promoting a atmosphere where prisoners, under extreme stress, start to enter into each other.”
Anoosheh added: “I was lucky that, after I had moved from the interrogation center to the main prison, my wife Sherry could call almost every day. But during the interview, communication is almost impossible.
“You are completely at the mercy of your abductors. If you can have a short call, a guard stands next to you and dictates what you can say – and you warn of what you should not say. Every word is checked.”
In one Moving lecture she gave last year, Nazanin – who was held in both Kerman- and Evin -Prisendi – investigated the differences between the two facilities.
When she was arrested for the first time, she spent 45 days in lonely imprisonment in Kerman’s prison. “The cell had high walls and cold floor. There was no bed but only thin blanket. I didn’t shower for days because I was not allowed to leave the cell. The walls were towering and the constant light in the cell blinded. I was terrified, lost and emotionally traumatized.”
She described Kerman as incredibly overcrowded, with “the number of prisoners who lived there was almost three times more than his actual capacity”, and only enough showers for every prisoner to wash for a few minutes. However, once she had moved out of her lonely cell, she found friendliness among the other women and she was able to call her parents, although she told how, devastating, “the majority of women had given up in Kerman prison.”
When she was transferred to Evin, she again found solidarity among the prisoners – who, according to them, often had higher level of education than those in Kerman and were determined to find routes to hope to bring each other strength.
The Lindsay and Craig family hope that people will participate in their campaign and will write to their members of parliament to help secure the release of the couple.
Sign the petition at https://www.change.org/freelindsayandcraig or to LEarn more, visit www.freelindsayandcraig.com
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