British couple jailed in Iran over espionage claims end hunger strike as worried son says it's a cry for help

British couple jailed in Iran over espionage claims end hunger strike as worried son says it's a cry for help Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who were detained in Iran's notorious Evin jail last year, embarked on three-month hunger strikes together in a bid to speak with their families again A Brit couple accused of espionage and imprisoned in a notorious Iranian jail have ended a three-month-long hunger strike in a "cry for help", their concerned son has said. Craig and Lindsay Foreman, both aged 53, embarked on concurrent hunger strikes this year as a means of protest against the treatment they received at the Tehran's notorious Evin jail, where they have been detailed since 2025. The pair were jailed on suspicion of espionage as they passed through the nation during a motorcycle journey from Europe to Australia, and sentenced to a decade behind bars in January. They went on gruelling 93 and 84-day hunger strikes together in protest, which their son said they closed this week with a five-day water fast. Speaking to the BBC, Lindsay's son Joe Bennett said that he and four other unnamed people helped the couple close out their protest on Saturday with a five-day fast. They teamed up with other prisoners at the Evin jail, he added, in a bid to create something "bigger than themselves". He said: "My mum and Craig have spent months on hunger strike, and even at the point of bringing it to an end they wanted to make it about something bigger than themselves. "Those final five days became about people standing together around values that should be universal: Truth, justice, kindness, peace and unity." Speaking to Sky News, Mr Bennett added that, while the strike was their "only agency to rebel" his family had been "begging" them to come off it over fears of damage to their bodies. He said: "It was an act of defiance. It was their only agency to rebel, essentially. Their concern spread further than themselves, and I think that speaks volumes. "But as a family we've been begging for months for them to come off because it was a real worry for us all - especially the length of time that passed and we got a message through that we would join them in a five-day fast towards the end of their hunger strike - which we've now completed - that they would end their hunger strike." The strike had an particularly severe impact on Mr Bennett's mum Lindsay, who he said was hospitalised with low blood sugar, something he learned while being drip-fed information in recent months. A family spokesperson said the couple had ultimately agreed to end their strike after negotiating with prison guards to speak directly to their loved ones again. He said: "The hardest part is the lack of information, we've had no calls with them, so you can never really check in on a daily or even weekly basis. "I haven't spoken to my mum for almost three months. The five-day water fast at the end of the 90 days was a real hardship on their bodies. I know that my mum had very, very low blood sugar. She was in hospital." Mr Bennett is now hoping to have a conversation about his mum and stepdad's incarceration with new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, having spoken with the UK's first envoy for complex consular cases, Alistair Burt, and Stephen Doughty, the new minister for the Middle East.