Originally Posted by eurasiaoverland (Post 645692)

I think this reply is echoing some of the naivety the defendants have shown - they made it public that they were researching something and talking to people. To a paranoid, indoctrinated regime member that is spying. Tourists come to take pictures, not interview people.

I don't think the Iranian authorities pick foreign travellers and accuse them of espionage, but if you hand them the case on a plate...

I don't know of mixed prisons in the UK and they certainly don't have them in Iran.