The United Kingdom has “intensified” its negotiations to obtain the release of Iranian-British Nazneen Zagari-Ratcliffe at the hands of Iranian justice since 2016, announced British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab on Sunday.
Accused of seeking to overthrow the regime in Tehran, which she disputes, this employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the Canadian-British news agency of the same name, is currently under an electronic bracelet. She now says that her family hopes to be able to return to Britain in seven weeks at the end of a five-year prison term.
In contact with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Jawad Zarif, British Foreign Minister Dominic Rab said on Sunday that the UK was doing everything possible to secure his “immediate release” not in seven weeks but as soon as possible. “We have escalated these negotiations and we are leaving no trace,” Dominic Raab told Sky News.
According to him, the arrival of Joe Biden in the White House may change Iran’s mind, “there may be additional possibilities”.
The announcement of the “intensification” of the discussions is “welcome”, with AFP Richard Ratcliffe, Nazneen Zagari-Ratcliffe’s husband, reacting “even though we’ve been listening for some time”. It would be “very worrying” if she could not leave Iran at the end of her sentence, he said, explaining that his wife counted the rest of the week on a calendar on a wall, which she calls him “freedom reversal.” Count “.
Nazneen Zagari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 in Iran with her daughter, where she had just gone to visit her family, and was then sentenced to five years in prison. In the spring, she obtained temporary release from the Avin prison in Tehran due to the novel coronovirus epidemic, after which she was placed under house arrest with her parents under an electronic bracelet.
He was the subject of a second legal process in Iran, which was accused of spreading propaganda against the regime, but the trial was postponed to the beginning of November, without a new date being reported to him, hoping for these proceedings. Abandonment
The United Kingdom has “intensified” its negotiations to obtain the release of Iranian-British Nazneen Zagari-Ratcliffe at the hands of Iranian justice since 2016, announced British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab on Sunday.
Accusing her of overthrowing the regime in Tehran, which she disputes, this employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation …
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