A British woman jailed in Iran for almost a year has spoken of the pain of separation from her family in a poignant Christmas message written in her cell.
"At a time when we should be connected, we find ourselves alone, down, dejected," Lindsay Foreman wrote in a poem entitled A Sad Voice From Evin Prison - A Christmas Poem.
A recording of her reading the message to her son on the phone from a noisy prison corridor has been shared with the BBC. It is the first time her voice has been heard publicly since her arrest.
She spoke of a "family torn apart" and said that grief "has made a home from the hole in our heart".
Ms Foreman, 53, said she wrote the poem for her family "and for anyone who has lost someone and when Christmas may not be such a happy time".
