Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband, Richard Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (Persian: نازنین زاغری رتکلیف‎‎) is a British-Iranian dual citizen who has been detained in Iran since 3 April 2016. On September 10th, 2016 it was revealed that she was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The charges are unknown.[1]

Arrest

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the news agency’s charitable arm, traveled to Iran on 17 March 2016 to visit her family for the Persian New Year with her 22-month old daughter Gabriella. On 3 April 2016, members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard arrested her at the Imam Khomeini Airport as she and daughter were about to board a flight back to the UK.[2][3] Her daughter's British passport was confiscated during the arrest, and the 2 year-old remains in Iran under the care of her maternal grandparents.[1]

Petition

On 7th May 2016, husband Richard Ratcliffe launched an online petition[4] urging both the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Iran's Supreme Leader to take appropriate action to secure the safe return of his wife and his baby daughter Gabriella. Richard's petition has been signed by over 800,000 supporters in over 155 countries.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 B. B. C. News. "UK-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'jailed on secret charges'". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
  2. ↑ "Husband of Iranian-British Citizen Held in Iran Calls Her Detainment 'Outrageous' and 'Cruel'". International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. 10 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Briton pleads with Iran to release arrested wife and daughter". The Guardian. 9 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Free Nazanin Ratcliffe". Change.org. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
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