Detained Brits used as ‘human shields’ in Iran war zone, family says

The family of a British couple detained in Iran said on Friday the pair were being used as “human shields” during the US-Israeli war on Iran, and they accused Britain’s government of failing to make progress on their release.

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were sentenced to 10 years in prison last year after Iran charged them with espionage, which they deny.

The family says the couple is being used as “effective human shields” and said a blast near Evin prison in Tehran had blown out window panels in Craig Foreman’s ward and caused plaster to fall onto inmates, who dived under their beds for cover.

“My parents are living under a ‘drone of drones’, the constant, maddening buzz of 600 machines in the sky,” Joe Bennett, Lindsay Foreman’s son, says in a statement.

“They are sharing small rectangular cells with rats and cockroaches, sleeping on metal bunks without mattresses in a state of constant physical pain.”