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Iranian-British Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'got his passport back', says British MP

2022-03-15T10:37:30.397Z


Iranian-British Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, hitherto banned from leaving Iran, has gotten his British passport back, it was announced on Tuesday...


Iranian-British Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, hitherto banned from leaving Iran, has gotten his British passport back, the MP for her London constituency announced on Tuesday (March 15), raising hopes of his return to the UK. United.

I am very happy to announce that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has recovered his British passport

,” said Tulip Siddiq, Labor MP for the constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn (north London), on Twitter.

Read alsoIran: Iranian-British Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared for a new trial in Tehran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe "

is still at his family's house in Tehran

" according to the MP.

"

I understand there is currently a British negotiating team in Tehran

," added Tulip Siddiq.

According to his employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, his lawyer Hojjat Kermani said, when asked if Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be released: “

I hope we will have some good news soon

”.

Contacted by AFP, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond immediately.

Project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic branch of the news agency of the same name, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 in Tehran, where she came to visit her family.

She had been accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamic Republic, which she vehemently denies, and sentenced to five years in prison.

After serving her sentence, she was again sentenced in late April to a year in prison for taking part in a rally outside the Iranian embassy in London in 2009.

Read alsoArriving at the end of her sentence, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe again summoned by Iranian justice

In October 2021, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe lost her appeal, causing her relatives to fear an imminent return to prison, from where she had been allowed out with an electronic bracelet in March 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. .

For her support, she is taken hostage in a conflict between London and Tehran because of an old debt of 400 million pounds (467 million euros), which London refuses to settle since the ousting of the Shah of Iran in 1979.

Source: lefigaro

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