{"id":593977,"date":"2026-05-20T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:08:21","slug":"british-couple-on-new-hunger-strike-in-iranian-jail-family-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593977\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple on new hunger strike in Iranian jail, family say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Foreman is believed to be 12 days into a hunger strike, which he began after the couple’s phone access was cut off<\/a> in early May.<\/p>\n

Other sources have confirmed to the family that Lindsay Foreman, 53, had paused a hunger strike after being told she would be able to contact her family, but had since resumed.<\/p>\n

Lindsay’s son Joe Bennett described their food refusal as a “medical emergency in the making”.<\/p>\n

He added: “I understand British politics is in an extraordinary moment. But my mum and Craig cannot wait for Westminster to resolve its own crisis.<\/p>\n

“Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper must act personally and immediately. This cannot be delayed. This cannot be deprioritised. Two lives are at stake.”<\/p>\n

Before their phone access was cut off, the couple had spoken to the BBC from Iran’s notorious Evin prison where they conceded they would probably be there “for a long time”.<\/p>\n

“I just feel that we’re wasting our lives in here and rotting away,” Craig said. “We are innocent people. We have committed no offence.”<\/p>\n

Members of the adventure motorbike community are expected to ride from Kensington Palace to Parliament Square on Wednesday to mark 500 days since the couple were first detained.<\/p>\n

Supporters, including MPs, relatives and friends, are also planning to deliver a petition to Downing Street calling for “urgent action” to return Lindsay and Craig Foreman to the UK.<\/p>\n

In an address to Parliament in April, Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer described the pair as “innocent tourists” and called their case an “injustice”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Foreman is believed to be 12 days into a hunger strike, which he began after the couple’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-593977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593977","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=593977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}