{"id":452634,"date":"2026-03-01T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452634\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:08:13","slug":"family-incredibly-worried-about-sussex-couple-jailed-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452634\/","title":{"rendered":"Family &#8216;incredibly worried&#8217; about Sussex couple jailed in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A family spokesperson added: &#8220;We are very concerned about the safety of Lindsay and Craig who were still in Evin prison today during the bombing of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The family did manage to speak to them this morning and at that time they were unhurt albeit very alert to, and concerned about the danger around them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper previously dubbed the couple&#8217;s sentence &#8220;completely appalling and totally unjustifiable&#8221;, and vowed the government would &#8220;pursue this case relentlessly with the Iranian government until we see Craig and Lindsay Foreman safely returned&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shadow foreign secretary, Dame Priti Patel, has condemned the jail term as &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; and called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to &#8220;use all available leverage&#8221; to secure their release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple&#8217;s sentence was confirmed to their families last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family spokesperson added: &#8220;We are very concerned about the safety of Lindsay and Craig who were still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452634","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\/452634","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=452634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}