‘I shouldn’t have been in prison for six years’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out in first UK interview
‘How many Foreign Secretaries should it take?’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has slammed the UK government for taking six years to deliver her freedom. “It should have happened six years ago,” she told a press conference on Monday morning – having returned from a six-year detention in Iran on Thursday. “I have seen five foreign secretaries over […]
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on her way home to UK after six years in detention in Iran
Charity worker has been detained in Iran for six years. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is heading home to the UK after being detained for six years in Tehran. The British-Iranian aid worker left the country alongside Anousheh Ashouri, another British-Iranian national, earlier on Wednesday. The 43-year-old’s local MP, Tulip Siddiq, tweeted a picture of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on the […]
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could be released by Iran soon, lawyer says
The aid worker has been detained in Iran since 2016 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her British passport returned, her MP Tulip Siddiq has said, renewing hopes that the charity worker may finally be able to return home after being arrested in Tehran in 2016. When asked whether Zaghari-Ratcliffe could be released, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani […]
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: husband ends hunger strike after promise to detained wife
Richard Ratcliffe has ended his 21-day hunger strike Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has ended his hunger strike outside of the UK’s Foreign Office building in London. Posting from the ‘Free Nazanin’ Twitter account, he told followers that he “promised” to end his three-week hunger strike for the sake of their […]
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UK “to pay £400m to Iran to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe”
Iranian state TV is reporting that the UK will pay the sum The UK are reportedly set to pay £400 million to Tehran in order to free Iranian-British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, according to Iranian state TV. The state broadcaster has said that deals have been reached with both Britain and the US in order to […]
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed for another year in Iran over ‘propaganda activities’
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to further one year in jail UK aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been jailed for another year and is prohibited from leaving Iran for that time, according to her lawyer. The UK-Iranian national was arrested by police during a visit to Iran with her young daughter to see her […]
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