{
  "id": 16014508,
  "title": "'I have lived that hell': Former Iran detainee calls for release of British couple in Evin Prison",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/i-have-lived-that-hell-former-iran-detainee-calls-for-release-of-16014508",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-22T07:08:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National Business",
    "slug": "the-national-business",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2026/10/22/lindsay-craig-foreman-evin-prison-release-campaign/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Iranian detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, now 72, still suffers nightmares from his five-year imprisonment in Evin Prison. Ashoori, who was released in 2022 after the UK government paid £400 million to Iran, is campaigning for the release of another British couple, Lindsay and Craig Foreman, currently serving 10 years for espionage. Ashoori fears the Foremans may be enduring a more severe incarceration than he did, citing recent political turmoil in Iran. The UK government has described the Foremans' sentence as \"appalling and unjustifiable,\" pledging continued efforts to secure their release. The Foremans' family has delivered a petition signed by 110,000 people to the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, urging a declaration of the detention as arbitrary and unlawful. MPs and supporters are meeting with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband to demand concrete answers and consider legal action, including a potential application to the International Court of Justice.",
  "summary": "More than four years after his release from an Iranian jail, Anoosheh Ashoori still wakes up with nightmares from the “dark, dark moments” he experienced there. Mr Ashoori, 72, was speaking on a dreary wet day outside the UK Parliament. The former inmate of Tehran's most notorious prison was out on the street to call on the UK government to do more to release another detained British couple,…",
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        "outlet": "The National UAE",
        "title": "'I have lived that hell': Former Iran detainee calls for release of British couple in Evin Prison",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/i-have-lived-that-hell-former-iran-detainee-calls-for-release-of",
        "published": "2026-10-22T07:08:08.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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