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In a tweet this morning, Representative Tulip Seddik said she had spoken to Mrs. Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard. He told Hampstead and Kilburn Parliament that the imprisoned mother “lost her latest appeal and her one-year prison sentence plus a one-year travel ban with no court hearing.”
Mrs. Zaghari-Ratcliffe “can now be taken back to prison at any time”.
The Iranian-British dual national who has been detained in Iran since April 2016.
In early September 2016, a Thomson Reuters Foundation employee was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of allegedly “conspiring to overthrow the Iranian government”.
She was temporarily released from prison in March last year, during the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, while she was being monitored.
Read more: Liz Truss calls for immediate release of UK nationals from Iran
The Tehran Public Prosecutor stated in October 2017 that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was being held for running “a BBC Persian online journalism course which was intended to recruit and train people to spread propaganda against Iran”.
On March 7 of this year, her original sentence expired, but in April she was convicted of propaganda activities against the government and sentenced to a year in prison.
Ms. Siddiq added, “The prime minister must act now” to liberate her. Downing Street directed the Express to the State Department for comment.
Ratcliffe has long campaigned for his wife’s release.
In September, he and their seven-year-old daughter, Isabella, celebrated 2,000 days of being held by Iranian authorities outside both houses of parliament.
There he accused the Iranian government of “taking hostages”, and said the UK government “must be brave and just start doing things that will lead to a rethink among those responsible for taking hostages in Iran.”
“The reason this family misses someone, who should be with them every day, is because Nazanin is used in political games.
“We’d like to go back to being a normal family, and I still have all the faith we’ll do one day.”
In 2019, Mr. Ratcliffe went on a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
The Free Nazanin campaign retweeted some reactions to the news that Secretary of State Liz Truss called for action.
Nick Hodgill called it “heartbreaking” and said Ms Truss “must do what your predecessors failed to do”.
Richard Hassall said Ms Truss “needs to take action on this immediately”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been contacted for comment.
More to follow…
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