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| Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband ending hunger strike after 21 days |
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| The husband of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is ending his hunger strike after 21 days. | The husband of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is ending his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| Richard Ratcliffe has been protesting outside the Foreign Office, demanding the government does more to secure his wife's release. | Richard Ratcliffe has been protesting outside the Foreign Office, demanding the government does more to secure his wife's release. |
| Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran for five years on spying charges and lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in October. | Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran for five years on spying charges and lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in October. |
| The Foreign Office previously said it was doing all it could to her get home. | The Foreign Office previously said it was doing all it could to her get home. |
| Mr Ratcliffe began protesting on 24 October, hoping to put pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet Iranian delegates at the COP26 climate summit and demand freedom for Britons detained in Iran. | |
| His wife Nazanin was arrested in Iran while taking the couple's daughter, Gabriella, to see her family in 2016. | |
| She was accused of plotting to overthrow the government and sentenced to five years in jail, spending four years in Evin prison in Tehran and one under house arrest. | |
| Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe? | |
| Nazanin husband talks to Truss about detained wife | |
| UK and Iran in talks over £400m debt - minister | |
| Ending his strike, Mr Ratcliffe said he "didn't want to go out in an ambulance". "I want to walk out with my head held high," he said. | |
| He said he had started to get pains in his feet overnight and after a chat with his doctor the decision was made to end the hunger strike. | |
| Mr Ratcliffe began his demonstration after his wife lost her latest appeal in Iran, saying that his family was "caught in a dispute between two states". |