This time last year 68-year-old British-Iranian, Anoosheh Ashoori, was dreaming of being able to run freely in London parks while in his cell at the notorious Evin prison in Iran. On the 2nd October 2022, he fulfilled his dream and ran the London Marathon to raise money for Amnesty International and Hostage International in solidarity with the political prisoners still in Iran.
On 17 August 2017, Ashoori was arrested by Iranian authorities on spying charges, which he has always denied. He was visiting his elderly mother in Tehran when a white car pulled up and 4 men got out, asked if he was Anoosheh Ashoori and continued to push him into the car, blindfolded him and took him away.
