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Husband of Nazanin Ratcliffe left in Iranian jail after Boris Johnson gaffe is on day TWELVE of hunger strike

The husband of an aid worker jailed in Tehran has joined her on a hunger strike for twelve days now to demand her release by the Iranian authorities

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2019-06-26 01:06
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The husband of an aid worker jailed in Tehran has joined her on a hunger strike for twelve days now to demand her release by the Iranian authorities.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit.

She was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, a charge denied by her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News.

Britain has also called for her release, a demand repeated on Twitter by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Saturday. Her jailing has added further tension to Britain’s already strained relationship with Iran.

In January, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on hunger strike for several days in protest after her family said she was refused permission to see a doctor to examine lumps in her breast and to address other health issues.

Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian EMbassy (c) SWNS

Her family said she ended the hunger strike a few days later following a decision to grant her medical treatment.

The British mum is being held in an Iranian prison following accusations by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that she was plotting to overthrow the government.

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Richard and Nazanin

But while her UK family have been calling on the Foreign Office to fight for her release, then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had made matters much worse for her by mistakenly telling an open House of Commons hearing that she was “teaching people journalism.”

Iranian Embassy protest (c) SWNS

An Iranian judge told the 38-year-old mum after that she faced more years in jail after gaffe-prone Boris Johnson’s remarks.

Many have joined Richard Ratcliffe and expressed solidarity, though still no sign of Boris Johnson.

Nazanin faces Day 1,180 in prison. Separated for over 3 years, they both start Day 12 of their hunger strike, Nazanin in Evin Prison & Richard outside the Iranian Embassy in #London @Jeremy_Hunt @AWMurrison @RitaUNHR Over 2,281,000 call for #FreeNazanin https://t.co/FQ1vtHf0Of

— Stephen Quentin (@Stephen_Quentin) June 25, 2019

It was a pleasure and an honour to meet Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian embassy.

I was moved by his strength, optimism and determination in the face of injustice, and his campaign for the freedom of his wife Nazanin. #FreeNazanin pic.twitter.com/bCdJpmUFbg

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 24, 2019

Very moving to talk to Richard Ratcliffe and support the campaign to #FreeNazanin He has been on hunger strike for 11 days so far to put pressure on the UK & Iranian authorities & I’ll be working with him and @AmnestyUK to demand action from the Government & justice for Nazanin pic.twitter.com/YVqB1R3ZXc

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) June 25, 2019

I visited Richard Ratcliffe today who is on hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy. The support he is getting is v moving.
Whilst I talked to him an elderly lady came up and said "Our thoughts are with you in your pain". #FreeNazanin #Hungry4Justice pic.twitter.com/WvxsdK67Qv

— Emily Thornberry (@EmilyThornberry) June 25, 2019

Yesterday, I met with Nazanine Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard and his sister, Rebecca outside the Iranian embassy.

Richard and Nazanin are on hunger-strike until Nazanin is released.

I will work with Parliamentary colleagues to do all we can to #FreeNazanin pic.twitter.com/xWkG0iXdfD

— Ruth Jones MP (@RuthNewportWest) June 25, 2019

In November 2017, Boris Johnson the gaffe-prone then Foreign Secretary was forced to  give the British mum detained in Iran an unreserved apology in parliament.

– After the shadow foreign secretary demanded he say sorry for his colossal blunder in an urgent question in the House of Commons. Emily Thornberry also called on Boris Johnson to stop endangering Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by finally admitting he had made an error.

“Of course I apologise for the distress, for the suffering that has been caused by the impression I gave that I believed she was there in a professional capacity. She was there on holiday,” said Boris Johnson at the time.

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry had accused Mr Johnson of ineptitude and called for him to resign if there is any increase to the British mum’s sentence. He was later to resign as Foreign Secretary over the EU Withdrawal Agrrement his government had negotiated which he described as turning Britain into a “vassal state” with no say over the EU laws it would have to consent to and likened to Britain donning a “suicide vest.”

Boris Johnson had initially tried to claim that he had not made a blunder that had made Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe in more jeopardy and had been “misinterpreted.”

But was later forced to admit: “I hope that the House will understand with crystal clarity that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was there on holiday. She was not there in any professional capacity. In so far as people got a different impression of what I was saying… that was my mistake. I should have been clearer. I apologise for the distress and anguish that has been cause Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family and our priority now is to do everything we can to get her out of Iran on humanitarian grounds.”

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