After years of prison, hunger strikes, tireless campaigns from their families and a £400 million debt paid off, two British-Iranians have finally returned to the UK. Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, was detained in Iran almost six years ago for allegedly plotting against the government. Retired civil engineer Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, was imprisoned for almost five years over suspected espionage. Learn about the deal that freed them and about other dual nationals still jailed in Iran.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been reunited with her family, hugging and kissing her seven-year-old daughter in emotional scenes at RAF Brize Norton after returning to Britain for the first time since she was detained in Iran six years ago. Wearing a blue dress and a yellow scarf, the colours of …
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is finally heading back to the UK following negotiations between the UK Government and Tehran about the release of dual …
Anoosheh Ashoori waits for the loudspeaker in one of the world's most notorious prisons to go quiet. He takes a deep breath and then his words begin …
Release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori mixed serpentine statecraft, brutal realpolitik and occasional stubborn idealism The long, necessarily cloak-and-dagger struggle to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori is a story that started in New York and – via the Sultan’s …
The ordeal of detained British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be a step closer to ending after her passport was returned, sparking …
Another British national has been released from prison in Iran after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was allowed to go home to the UK after six years …
