Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

The British-Iranian mother was told she could not leave Iran unless she signed the document at Tehran airport.

She was told to sign the document two days later at the airport. She was kept in the country for a further year at the end of her sentence as talks continued between the two countries. She was arrested in April 2016 at Tehran's international airport as she prepared to leave the country after visiting her parents. So I'm sure they will show that some day." We know what you were up to, even your prime minister mentioned that.' It's a false confession.”

Government failings to forced confessions: what we learned from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Woman's Hour interview.

At a press conference following her release in March, Zaghari-Ratcliffe said it had taken the government far too long to pay the multimillion-pound debt to Iran, which she believes helped secure her release. Zaghari-Ratcliffe also revealed that Iran had forced her to sign a last-minute false confession at the airport as a condition of her release. Days after his original comment, Johnson did clarify in the House of Commons that there was no doubt Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been on holiday when she was captured and apologised for distress caused to her and her family. They are just propaganda for the Iranian regime to show how scary they are and that they can do whatever they want to do.” She spoke about the emotional anguish of being separated from her young child, and the fleeting moments of joy when she was allowed to visit her in the women’s ward of the detention centre once a week. “There was no evidence that I was here to work,” she told Barnett. “But then when he made that comment, the Revolutionary Guard every time after that, when I stood trial or a new case opened, they would say: ‘You have been hiding information from us.

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“At the end of the day, they had to pay that debt. “They took me to this VIP hall at the airport as if they were holding a valuable package,” he says. If I take a day of your time and I waste it? “The job is not finished. “My criticism is at the leadership itself, the apex of this hierarchy. “We seriously believed they were going to say, ’Sorry, we made a mistake, he is being released.’ We didn’t even go to the Foreign Office.” Izadi is hugely thankful for the help provided by Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband, Richard. Yet she also describes their story as “media gold”: a young woman taken away from her husband and young child. The two high-profile cases are the two that came home.” “The first nine months, up until June 2018, it didn’t even occur to us to go public,” Izadi says. When they did contact the FCDO, they were advised to keep quiet. That was a small village, in a sense, with very highly educated people there,” he tells The House. Finally, fingerprints and mugshots heralded the end of his initial stay in prison – “the worst period”.

Amanda Milling claimed a “UK official was present” at the airport to help “facilitate” both Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori's…

He added Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was “worried” that speaking about the confession would have an impact on her family in Iran and would be used in TV propaganda, adding: “It felt very important that she did it. Ms Siddiq asked: “What was the reason that my constituent was required to sign a forced confession? Iran should urgently take the offer on the table because there will not be a better one.” “At Tehran airport on March 16, on the day she was eventually allowed to fly back to the UK, she was asked again to do this by Iran, but instead she tore up the piece of paper. No UK official forced Nazanin to do so.” Her ordeal was exacerbated when Iran made clear they would not allow her to leave Tehran airport unless Nazanin signed a document.

Foreign Office minister Amanda Milling said the British-Iranian captive took the decision to sign the document while at Tehran airport awaiting her release ...

"No UK official forced Nazanin to do so." "It was only when a UK official told her that she had to sign it if she was going to board the plane that was waiting to take her home that she finally caved and gave Iran what they wanted. In an interview this week, she told the BBC she was "made to sign (a) forced confession at the airport in the presence of the British government".

Amanda Milling claimed a “UK official was present” at the airport to help “facilitate” both Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori's departure.

He added Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was “worried” that speaking about the confession would have an impact on her family in Iran and would be used in TV propaganda, adding: “It felt very important that she did it. Ms Siddiq asked: “What was the reason that my constituent was required to sign a forced confession? Iran should urgently take the offer on the table because there will not be a better one.” “At Tehran airport on March 16, on the day she was eventually allowed to fly back to the UK, she was asked again to do this by Iran, but instead she tore up the piece of paper. No UK official forced Nazanin to do so.” Her ordeal was exacerbated when Iran made clear they would not allow her to leave Tehran airport unless Nazanin signed a document.

Amanda Milling claimed a “UK official was present” at the airport to help “facilitate” both Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori's…

He added Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was “worried” that speaking about the confession would have an impact on her family in Iran and would be used in TV propaganda, adding: “It felt very important that she did it. Ms Siddiq asked: “What was the reason that my constituent was required to sign a forced confession? Iran should urgently take the offer on the table because there will not be a better one.” “At Tehran airport on March 16, on the day she was eventually allowed to fly back to the UK, she was asked again to do this by Iran, but instead she tore up the piece of paper. No UK official forced Nazanin to do so.” Her ordeal was exacerbated when Iran made clear they would not allow her to leave Tehran airport unless Nazanin signed a document.