LONDON: A British woman held in Iran on spying charges has been moved into the same prison as her husband after protests reportedly flared in her women’s jail, her family said Tuesday.
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, have been held since January after Iranian authorities seized the couple as they passed through Kerman, in central Iran, while on a round-the-world motorbike trip.
Lindsay Foreman was transferred last week from Qarchak women’s prison to Evin prison in Tehran, where her husband Craig is also detained, the family said in a statement sent to AFP.
They were told of the move by the couple’s state-appointed lawyer in Tehran.
While the family said it was “relieved” that Lindsay Foreman had left Qarchak, it noted Evin remains “one of the most notorious prisons in the world. We cannot let slight relief turn into complacency.”
