Anoosheh Ashoori (Persian: انوشه آشوری) is a British–Iranian businessman formerly detained in Evin jail in Iran.
Iranian authorities arrested Ashoori in August 2017, when he was in the country to visit his mother.
[4] Ashoori spent 10 years in the UK from 1972, while he studied mechanical and aeronautical engineering, returning to Iran to take care of his ailing father.
British academics and Ashoori's family have stated that Ashoori's detention, and that of other jailed Iranian dual citizens, is connected to diplomatic disputes between Iran and the UK.
[5] Ashoori described his life in Evin jail in an article in The Guardian.