Joe Bennett was waiting for a call from his mother, Lindsay, who is detained in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison on New Year’s Day.
She and her husband, Craig Foreman, were arrested almost a year ago on espionage charges while travelling through Iran on a motorcycling trip around the world.
Mr Bennett said he had not expected that the pair would still be behind bars a year later, and that their family back in the UK would have to spend Christmas and New Year’s Eve without them.
“It’s a very strange time of the year, it has been tough, there’s a hole – a void that has been hard to fill,” he told The National.
He received a call from his mother on Christmas Day, and she has in recent months been granted near-daily phone calls after more th
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