"Arrested British Brings Spotlight to Iranian Arbitrary Imprisonment and Executions"
Wilder Alejandro Sanchez
The Geopolitics
3 March, 2025
Two British citizens, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, have been detained by Iranian authorities, which accuses them of being spies. Unless released, the couple could spend years in jail and even face the death penalty – Iran executed around 901 individuals in 2024 alone, according to the United Nations.
While the arrest of the two British citizens could cause a diplomatic incident between London and Tehran, it will, hopefully, bring attention to Iran’s very unfair and severely biased “justice” system. Foreigners are regarded with suspicion and distrust by authorities, but the same attitude is applied to the general population, and particularly to non-Fars citizens, such as Azerbaijani Turks & Kurds, or members of religions other than Shia, like the Baháʼí Faith. One of the forms of pressure applied against thousands of political prisoners arrested and currently in detention centers and prisons is access to basic human rights necessities like adequate medical care or the possibility to contact family members.
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