According to reports, Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested in southern Iran in January while riding motorcycles around the world. They have been charged by local authorities with information gathering in multiple provinces.

Two British nationals arrested last month in southern Iran have been charged with spying, Iranian authorities said Tuesday.

The UK Foreign Office identified the couple as Craig and Lindsay Foreman.

According to Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir, the pair had entered Iran “posing as tourists” and were gathering information around the country before their arrest in Kerman province.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency cited Jahangir as saying that they were being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on “espionage charges” and were accused of having links to intelligence agencies of “hostile countries.”