Key Facts

• Craig Foreman was arrested with his wife, Lindsay, in January 2023 while passing through Iran on a motorcycle journey from Europe to Australia, and they were both initially sentenced to 10 years in jail in February.
• The Foreman's family claims that Craig was told his sentence was being extended for talking to the media from his cell in Tehran's Evin prison, with no opportunity to defend himself and no lawyer or translator present.
• According to Lindsay's son, Joe Bennett, Craig was brought before a judge and informed of the additional sentence under circumstances that the family describes as a "flagrant abuse of the most basic rights any person is owed".
• The couple has been on hunger strike since May, when prison authorities prevented them from calling their families, and has reportedly suffered significant health consequences, including Craig losing around 16kg (35lb) and Lindsay experiencing dizziness and body tremors.
• Two United Nations human rights experts, Dr. Alice Edwards and Mai Sato, have called on Iran to release the couple, citing "grave irregularities" in their detention and sentencing, and stating that they "appear to have been wrongfully detained, prosecuted on highly questionable grounds, and sentenced after proceedings that failed to meet basic fair trial guarantees".