Hopes of release build amid reports Britain has now paid decades-old £400m debt to Iran.
A breakdown in the Iran nuclear talks could yet have an impact on the release of dual-national detainees. She has been out on a tag in Tehran, staying at her parents’ home, and in April 2021 was sentenced to a further year in prison, but has not yet been called to jail. Rebecca Ratcliffe, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sister-in-law, said Tuesday’s developments were “one of the most positive steps in the six years she has been taken from us. We have long called for the release of unfairly detained British nationals in Iran. We don’t comment on speculation.” Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 when she went to visit her parents, and has served a five-year jail sentence. She is still at her family home in Tehran. I also understand that there is a British negotiating team in Tehran right now.
Her MP Tulip Siddiq says she understands there is a British negotiating team in Tehran where she is being detained. In the meantime, Ms Siddiq says Mrs ...
"She is still at her family home in Tehran. I also understand that there is a British negotiating team in Tehran right now. Ms Siddiq says she understands there is a British negotiating team in Tehran where she is being detained. The British-Iranian national being held in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has had her British passport returned, her MP in the UK Tulip Siddiq has said.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport in April 2016 and sentenced to five years in jail after being accused of spying.
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her British passport returned almost six years after her detention in Iran, according to a ...
However, that sentence has not yet started and she is banned from leaving the country. The Thomson Reuters Foundation said that she had travelled to Iran in a personal capacity and had not been doing work in Iran. The Thomson Reuters Foundation is a charity organisation that is independent of Thomson Reuters and operates independently of Reuters News. Iranian officials also did not reply.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in the Middle East country since 2016, when she was arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. She ...
They are refusing to confirm Nazanin has her passport back or make any comment on possibility of release. In January, the daughter of another British-Iranian detained in Iran said her father was to begin a hunger strike due to a lack of progress in securing his release. We are exploring options to resolve it. They say that the row over the £400m debt to Iran has not been resolved. "We are committed to paying the debt. The spokesperson said that at this point, the long-standing £400m British debt to Iran has not been repaid, and restated Britain's position that there is no link between the money and Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case.
Britain is prioritising paying Iran the £400 million debt it owes the country, the foreign secretary said today, amid hope that it could be a key element in ...
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British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran on spying charges, has had her British passport returned, according to her MP...
The company that made the deal with Iran – International Military Services Ltd, a now-defunct Ministry of Defence body that solely exists to deal with the debt issue – agreed to deposit the balance with the High Courts as far back as 2002, but the money was never delivered due to a combination of legal battles and international sanctions. The rest of the order was never fulfilled as relations between the two countries broke down, and Tehran has been chasing to get a refund on the undelivered vehicles ever since. According to members of Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family, the dual national is being held in Tehran in a retaliation over a historic £400million debt supposedly owed by the UK to the Iranian government.
Imprisoned British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her passport returned in Iran, as reports suggest her release from house arrest ...
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