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Showing posts with label Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Show all posts
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Monday, May 23, 2022
Friday, May 13, 2022
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Tells PM She ‘Lived in the Shadow’ of His Mistake
THE GUARDIAN: Zaghari-Ratcliffe recalled ‘training journalists’ comment in meeting with Boris Johnson, says Tulip Siddiq
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told Boris Johnson that for four years she lived in the shadow of his mistaken statement as foreign secretary that she had been in Iran to train journalists.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, released by Iran just over a month ago, told Johnson in a face-to-face meeting in Downing Street that his remarks had had a big impact on her life, according to Tulip Siddiq, her MP and close ally.
Speaking outside Downing Street after the meeting, Siddiq said Johnson looked visibly shocked, and she said she was proud of Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being so blunt. With video » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Friday, May 13, 2022
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told Boris Johnson that for four years she lived in the shadow of his mistaken statement as foreign secretary that she had been in Iran to train journalists.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, released by Iran just over a month ago, told Johnson in a face-to-face meeting in Downing Street that his remarks had had a big impact on her life, according to Tulip Siddiq, her MP and close ally.
Speaking outside Downing Street after the meeting, Siddiq said Johnson looked visibly shocked, and she said she was proud of Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being so blunt. With video » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Friday, May 13, 2022
Monday, March 21, 2022
In Full: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Speaks Publicly for First Time
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Saturday, March 19, 2022
‘They Can’t Stop Hugging’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Reunion with Her Daughter
THE GUARDIAN: The woman freed from six years’ detention told her MP about the fraught last moments in Iran and the bliss of her return
A picture tweeted by Tulip Siddiq of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her daughter, Gabriella,making pizza. Photograph: Rebecca Ratcliffe
Even as she entered the airport clutching her British passport for the first time in six years, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she could not believe she was finally about to return home to her husband and daughter.
The last moments of her ordeal in Iran, where she had been held by the regime, in effect as a hostage, on trumped-up charges, were far from straightforward and fraught with anxieties.
Speaking to her MP, Tulip Siddiq, on Thursday night, Zaghari-Ratcliffe described how even at the airport in Tehran, conversations continued between Iranian and UK officials. Nothing was straightforward.
As she arrived to board the flight, a reporter from an Iranian news channel appeared, one she recognised and who had spread misinformation about her before one of her earlier trials, to try and bounce her into an interview.
Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn who has been a vociferous and dogged campaigner for Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s freedom, spoke to her on Thursday for the first time since she landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband, Richard, who mounted a worldwide publicity campaign to free his wife, are now staying in a safe house with their seven-year-old daughter, Gabriella, to give the family who have spent so many years apart some privacy and downtime before they return home to north London. » | Jessica Elgot, Chief political correspondent | Friday, March 18, 2022
Verwandt.
Even as she entered the airport clutching her British passport for the first time in six years, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she could not believe she was finally about to return home to her husband and daughter.
The last moments of her ordeal in Iran, where she had been held by the regime, in effect as a hostage, on trumped-up charges, were far from straightforward and fraught with anxieties.
Speaking to her MP, Tulip Siddiq, on Thursday night, Zaghari-Ratcliffe described how even at the airport in Tehran, conversations continued between Iranian and UK officials. Nothing was straightforward.
As she arrived to board the flight, a reporter from an Iranian news channel appeared, one she recognised and who had spread misinformation about her before one of her earlier trials, to try and bounce her into an interview.
Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn who has been a vociferous and dogged campaigner for Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s freedom, spoke to her on Thursday for the first time since she landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband, Richard, who mounted a worldwide publicity campaign to free his wife, are now staying in a safe house with their seven-year-old daughter, Gabriella, to give the family who have spent so many years apart some privacy and downtime before they return home to north London. » | Jessica Elgot, Chief political correspondent | Friday, March 18, 2022
Verwandt.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Für Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe endet ein sechsjähriger Albtraum
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: 2016 wurde die britisch-iranische Doppelbürgerin während eines Ferienaufenthalts in Teheran beschuldigt, einen Umsturz der iranischen Regierung geplant zu haben. Nach sechs Jahren Haft ist sie endlich freigekommen – auch weil die britische Regierung Iran alte Schulden zurückbezahlt hat.
Die britisch-iranische Doppelbürgerin Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wurde 2016 in Iran festgenommen. | Wana News Agency
Für die britisch-iranische Doppelbürgerin Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ist am Mittwoch eine sechs Jahre lange Tortur zu Ende gegangen. 2016 war sie nach einem Besuch bei ihren Eltern in Teheran aus heiterem Himmel verhaftet und wegen Spionagevorwürfen verurteilt worden. Nun kam sie zusammen mit Anoosheh Ashoori, einem weiteren inhaftierten iranisch-britischen Doppelbürger, frei. Aussenministerin Liz Truss erklärte, die ehemaligen Geiseln würden noch am Mittwochabend in Grossbritannien erwartet. Tulip Siddiq, die Unterhausabgeordnete für Zaghari-Ratcliffes Wahlkreis im Norden Londons, twitterte ein Bild, das die 43-Jährige lächelnd im Flugzeug nach dem Start am Flughafen Teheran zeigt. » | Niklaus Nuspliger, London | Mittwoch, 16. März 2022
Für die britisch-iranische Doppelbürgerin Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ist am Mittwoch eine sechs Jahre lange Tortur zu Ende gegangen. 2016 war sie nach einem Besuch bei ihren Eltern in Teheran aus heiterem Himmel verhaftet und wegen Spionagevorwürfen verurteilt worden. Nun kam sie zusammen mit Anoosheh Ashoori, einem weiteren inhaftierten iranisch-britischen Doppelbürger, frei. Aussenministerin Liz Truss erklärte, die ehemaligen Geiseln würden noch am Mittwochabend in Grossbritannien erwartet. Tulip Siddiq, die Unterhausabgeordnete für Zaghari-Ratcliffes Wahlkreis im Norden Londons, twitterte ein Bild, das die 43-Jährige lächelnd im Flugzeug nach dem Start am Flughafen Teheran zeigt. » | Niklaus Nuspliger, London | Mittwoch, 16. März 2022
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Hits Out at Government Handling of Case
THE OBSERVER: Richard Ratcliffe criticises failure to ‘deal with problems until they become crises’ after wife loses appeal
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter, Gabriella, during a temporary release from prison in 2018.Photograph: Free Nazanin campaign/AFP/Getty Images
The husband of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe last night criticised the government’s handling of his wife’s case after it was revealed she had lost her appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran.
Richard Ratcliffe accused the government of failing to deal with problems “until they become crises”.
His wife was jailed for five years in 2016 after being accused of plotting against the regime. After her release earlier this year, she was charged and sentenced to another year allegedly for spreading propaganda.
Following the failure of her appeal in the propaganda case, Zaghari-Ratcliffe can be sent back to prison at any time.
Her husband said his wife was “traumatised at the thought of having to go back to jail”. » | David Connett | Saturday, October 16, 2021
The husband of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe last night criticised the government’s handling of his wife’s case after it was revealed she had lost her appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran.
Richard Ratcliffe accused the government of failing to deal with problems “until they become crises”.
His wife was jailed for five years in 2016 after being accused of plotting against the regime. After her release earlier this year, she was charged and sentenced to another year allegedly for spreading propaganda.
Following the failure of her appeal in the propaganda case, Zaghari-Ratcliffe can be sent back to prison at any time.
Her husband said his wife was “traumatised at the thought of having to go back to jail”. » | David Connett | Saturday, October 16, 2021
Monday, August 24, 2020
UK Delays Zaghari-Ratcliffe Release for Fear of Offending Trump, Lawyers Claim
The British government has deliberately delayed taking steps necessary to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – including payment of a £400m debt owed to Iran – for fear of offending the Trump administration, lawyers acting for the British-Iranian woman have alleged.
In a seven-page letter to the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, the lawyers accuse the government of procrastination and claim the UK’s approach to securing the release of dual nationals from Tehran jails has been far less effective than those of other countries – including the US. A BBC Panorama programme broadcast a similar charge on Monday night.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been under effective house arrest in Tehran since March when she was given temporary release from prison having served four years of a five-year sentence for alleged espionage. She was arrested in Tehran in April 2016. » | Patrick Wintour | Monday, August 24, 2020
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