Lindsay and Craig Foreman, a British couple who were arrested in Iran nearly nine months ago on charges of “espionage,” are scheduled to be tried at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on Saturday, September 27, 2025. They are being held in Evin Prison and Qarchak Prison in Varamin.
The British couple are expected to appear in court for their final hearing while their family remains “completely in the dark” about the upcoming session.
Joe Bennet, the couple’s son, said they are living in horrific conditions and facing repeated human rights violations. He called on the British government to take action.
This news comes about a month after the two British citizens were suddenly transferred to a court in Tehran, an event that their relatives said they had no prior knowledge of, and to this day no details have been provided to them.
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Sky News reported on August 29, 2025, that the couple appeared in court in Tehran on August 27, accompanied by a state-appointed lawyer they had only recently met.
At that time, their son expressed deep concern about the judicial process.
It is reported that they were pressured and tortured by security agents to extract forced confessions, including being held in solitary confinement for long periods and subjected to sleep deprivation.
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52 years old, had previously lived in East Sussex, England, but moved in 2019 to Andalusia in southern Spain. Lindsay worked as a life coach, and Craig was a carpenter.
During their travels to different countries, they carried out a research project in which they asked people about the meaning of a “good life” and documented diverse experiences and cultures.
The couple entered Iran from Armenia as part of a world motorcycle trip. After staying in the cities of Tabriz, Tehran, and Isfahan, they planned to head to Kerman, but on January 3, 2025, they were arrested on charges of “espionage.”
The Foreman family are not the only Europeans imprisoned in Iran. European officials and human rights activists consider the Iranian regime’s arrests of Western citizens as “state hostage-taking.”
They believe that the Iranian regime uses these individuals as leverage to pressure the West in order to gain concessions.
