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| Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian mother of one-year-old girl detained without charge in Tehran | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian mother of one-year-old girl detained without charge in Tehran |
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| A British-Iranian mother and charity worker has been detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, separated from her one-year-old baby daughter and held without charge in solitary confinement. | A British-Iranian mother and charity worker has been detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, separated from her one-year-old baby daughter and held without charge in solitary confinement. |
| The family of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is issuing an urgent appeal for David Cameron to use the newly strengthened relationship between the West and Iran to overturn her “outrageous and arbitrary” detention. | The family of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is issuing an urgent appeal for David Cameron to use the newly strengthened relationship between the West and Iran to overturn her “outrageous and arbitrary” detention. |
| Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s British passport was confiscated, along with that of her baby, Gabriella, when she tried to return to London after a two-week holiday visiting family in Tehran. | Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s British passport was confiscated, along with that of her baby, Gabriella, when she tried to return to London after a two-week holiday visiting family in Tehran. |
| After being stopped at the check-in desk on 3 April, she was transported to an unknown detention facility some 1,000km away in Kerman Province. | After being stopped at the check-in desk on 3 April, she was transported to an unknown detention facility some 1,000km away in Kerman Province. |
| Speaking to The Independent, her British husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife was being interrogated daily and had been given no access to a lawyer or to see her daughter, who is being cared for by her grandparents. The family understands she has been made to sign a confession under duress, but does not know its contents. | Speaking to The Independent, her British husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife was being interrogated daily and had been given no access to a lawyer or to see her daughter, who is being cared for by her grandparents. The family understands she has been made to sign a confession under duress, but does not know its contents. |
| Addressing the Prime Minister, Mr Ratcliffe said: “Please, do whatever you can to bring my wife home and bring my daughter home.” | Addressing the Prime Minister, Mr Ratcliffe said: “Please, do whatever you can to bring my wife home and bring my daughter home.” |
| The authorities in Iran have confirmed they are holding the British citizen, her husband said, but refused to say on what grounds beyond the fact it is a “serious investigation involving national security”. | The authorities in Iran have confirmed they are holding the British citizen, her husband said, but refused to say on what grounds beyond the fact it is a “serious investigation involving national security”. |
| A project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation development charity, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has visited her family in Iran four times since Gabriella was born in June 2014. | A project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation development charity, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has visited her family in Iran four times since Gabriella was born in June 2014. |
| And her husband said it was “absolutely crazy” she could be implicated in such apparently serious charges – a fact which will itself bring “suffering and cruelty” on her extended family in Iran. | And her husband said it was “absolutely crazy” she could be implicated in such apparently serious charges – a fact which will itself bring “suffering and cruelty” on her extended family in Iran. |
| “Nazanin is a kind, caring and very sociable person, a lovely and loving wife and mother, and it will be breaking her heart to be so far from her baby,” Mr Ratcliffe said. | “Nazanin is a kind, caring and very sociable person, a lovely and loving wife and mother, and it will be breaking her heart to be so far from her baby,” Mr Ratcliffe said. |
| He called on Mr Cameron to use “whatever pressure [he] can to bring her at the very least out of solitary confinement”. | He called on Mr Cameron to use “whatever pressure [he] can to bring her at the very least out of solitary confinement”. |
| “She draws strength from being with family and friends and other mums, being stuck away in solitary confinement will be killing her,” he said. | “She draws strength from being with family and friends and other mums, being stuck away in solitary confinement will be killing her,” he said. |
| Barbara Ratcliffe, Mr Ratcliffe’s mother, said the whole family is “frantically worried about Nazanin’s safety”. | Barbara Ratcliffe, Mr Ratcliffe’s mother, said the whole family is “frantically worried about Nazanin’s safety”. |
| “We have been given false information and hope that she would be detained for a couple of days more and that was a month ago and still no Naz. We desperately need both Naz and Gabriella home.” | “We have been given false information and hope that she would be detained for a couple of days more and that was a month ago and still no Naz. We desperately need both Naz and Gabriella home.” |
| Mr Ratcliffe has started a petition on Change.org calling on the Iranian government to “Free Nazanin”, and said he hoped it could show “there is a community of people who care for her”. | Mr Ratcliffe has started a petition on Change.org calling on the Iranian government to “Free Nazanin”, and said he hoped it could show “there is a community of people who care for her”. |
| A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told The Independent: “We have been providing support to the family of a British-Iranian national since we were first informed of her arrest, and will continue to do so.” | A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told The Independent: “We have been providing support to the family of a British-Iranian national since we were first informed of her arrest, and will continue to do so.” |
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