A new hunger strike was launched by Richard Ratcliffe to urge the British government to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran for the release of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Anglo-Iranian citizen employed by the Thomson-Reuters foundation who was stopped in 2016 during a visit to the country of origin and then condemned on the basis of controversial accusations first of espionage and then of hostile propaganda, which she always denied.
The protest will also be held symbolically outside the London Foreign Office, according to the Guardian.
In recent days, the Iranian authorities had rejected a new appeal against the woman's sentence, establishing that she will have to remain in prison for another year.
Last month, the British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss, defined the story of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who in the United Kingdom also has a young daughter, Gabriella, who was brought back in 2019 from Iran - as "a frightening odyssey", in occasion of the 2 thousand days from the beginning of the case.
On that occasion, Truss had also met Richard Ratcliffe.