Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe | |
---|---|
![]() Zaghari-Ratcliffe in 2011 | |
Born | Nazanin Zaghari 26 December 1978 |
Citizenship |
|
Education | |
Known for | Imprisonment in Iran (2016–2022) |
Spouse |
Richard Ratcliffe (m. 2009) |
Children | 1 |
Awards | BBC 100 Women (2022)[2] |
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (née Zaghari; Persian: نازنین زاغری; born 26 December 1978)[3] is an Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran from 3 April 2016 as part of a long-running dispute between Britain and Iran.[4] In early September 2016, she was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of plotting to topple the Iranian government.[5][6] While in prison, she went on at least three hunger strikes trying to persuade Iranian authorities to provide medical treatment for her health problems.[4] She was temporarily released on 17 March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, but subject to electronic monitoring.[7]
In October 2017, the prosecutor general of Tehran made a new claim that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was being held for running "a BBC Persian online journalism course which was aimed at recruiting and training people to spread propaganda against Iran".[8] Zaghari-Ratcliffe has always denied the spying charges against her, and her husband maintains that his wife "was imprisoned as leverage for a debt owed by the UK over its failure to deliver tanks to Iran in 1979."[9]
On 7 March 2021, her original sentence ended, but she was scheduled to face a second set of charges on 14 March.[10] On 26 April, she was found guilty of propaganda activities against the government and sentenced to another year in prison.[11] She appealed but on 16 October 2021, her appeal was rejected by the Iranian court.[12] Zaghari-Ratcliffe was finally released on 16 March 2022[13] immediately after Britain repaid the outstanding debt of £393.8 million to Iran.[14] She returned to the United Kingdom the next day.[15]
redresslegal
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).bbc-20160910
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).thetimesbritishmother
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search