{"id":351125,"date":"2026-01-04T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:52:09","slug":"family-of-lindsay-and-craig-foreman-held-in-iran-take-petition-to-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351125\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Lindsay and Craig Foreman held in Iran take petition to No 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was joined at Number 10 by former detainee Anoosheh Ashoori and Richard Ratcliffe, who went on hunger strike twice in a bid to get his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed from Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Bennett, from Folkestone, Kent, said: “I need to know they [the government] are working as hard as they can to get them home.”<\/p>\n

The petition was handed in after a choir of supporters sang Stand By Me.<\/p>\n

Every day in prison “chisels away at their mental and physical health,” Mr Bennett said, adding: “They are not spies for the British state.”<\/p>\n

He was speaking on Saturday as Iranian media reported another day of clashes between security forces and demonstrators.<\/p>\n

Protests erupted in Iran last Sunday over inflation and currency devaluation, after the Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar.<\/p>\n

At least eight people are reported to have died<\/a> during the week-long protests, as of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Donald Trump warned Iran that if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters” the US “will come to their rescue”.<\/p>\n

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the US president’s warning was “reckless and dangerous”.<\/p>\n

Mr Bennett described it as a “worrying situation”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was joined at Number 10 by former detainee Anoosheh Ashoori and Richard Ratcliffe, who went on hunger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}