British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe loses court appeal
“Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, have repeatedly denied the espionage charges against her. After the latest setback in her case, Zaghari-Ratcliffe has asked to speak to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the hopes that he secure her release with the Iranian delegation traveling to Glasgow for COP26.”Nazanin has asked to speak with the PM – he invited the Iranian President to Glasgow next month for #COP26 – it is time for him to sit down with the Iranians and end this finally,” the Free Nazanin campaign tweeted on Saturday.Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given British diplomatic protection in 2019 and has been designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.She has undertaken at least three hunger strikes during her detention, one of them in a desperate bid to seek medical treatment for lumps in her breasts and numbness in her limbs. Last February, her family said she believed she had contracted Covid-19 in Evin Prison outside Tehran.In 2019, her supporters said she was transferred to mental ward of a hospital in Tehran and was being denied visits from her father.CNN’s Sarah Dean, Emmet Lyons and Lauren Said-Moorhouse contributed to this report.
