British Iranian charity worker- Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe is on her way back home to the UK. Naznin Zaghari Ratcliffe is finally free from Iranian jail and is at Tehran’s international airport on her way back home to the UK. The mother of an eight-year-old, Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has finally been released from the Iranian jail after being detained for almost six years.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained at Imam Khomeini airport in April 2016 when she was on a vacation and was visiting her family with her daughter. She was accused of helping unions that have been allegedly trying to dethrone the Iranian government and was later sentenced to five years in prison. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, have continually refuted the spying charges against her.
In April 2021 she was handed a second penitentiary verdict and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the administration. She also lost an appeal in her case in October. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given British diplomatic protection in 2019 and was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
She attempted at least three hunger strikes during her imprisonment, one of them in desperate need to seek medical treatment for lumps in her breasts and numbness in her legs and hands. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe has also carried out hunger strikes depicting togetherness with his wife. Their daughter, Gabriella, who was just 22 months old at the moment of her mother’s arrest, is now almost eight.
A British negotiating team had been working continuously in Tehran to ensure the release of several dual nationals. Just a few hours before the declaration, Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson clarified that the talks are “moving forward” and “going right up to the wire.” It was disclosed yesterday that the 43-year-old British Iranian social worker had her British passport returned to her.
Labor’s MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, Tulip Siddiq said that she had spoken to Mrs Ratcliffe. Mrs Nazanin was at the airport with her passport, she stated but remained under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. A £400m debt associated with a cancelled order for 1,500 Chieftain tanks, back in the 1970s had been correlated with the continued detention of Mrs Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other UK-Iranian dual nationals held in the country – although the government of United Kingdom has previously asserted that the two issues should not be linked.
