Mark Firkin and Jolie King are believed to have spent the last 10 weeks in prison in Tehran
Michael Howie13 September 2019
Jolie King and her Australian boyfriend Mark Firkin have been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for some 10 weeks, having reportedly been arrested for flying a drone without a licence.
In an unrelated case, a second British-Australian woman, a Melbourne-based academic whose name has not been made public, has been in the same prison for almost a year
Senator Marise Payne said she has raised their cases “many times” with her Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif.
“We have no reason to think that these arrests are connected to international concern over Iran’s nuclear programme, United Nations sanction enforcement or maritime security concerning the safety of civilian shipping,” she said.
