Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (born December 26, 1978 in Tehran ) is a British-Iranian journalist. Your detention in Iran attracted international attention . Zaghari-Ratcliffe has British and Iranian citizenship, but Iran does not recognize dual citizenships of its citizens.

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Zaghari-Ratcliffe moved to the UK in 2007 ; there she met her husband. She works for the Thomson Reuters Journalists' Foundation and previously worked for BBC Media Action, an international development company.

According to his own statements, Zaghari-Ratcliffe traveled to the spring festival Akitu in March 2016 with her daughter in Iran to visit her parents. In June 2016, she was arrested in Iran for espionage. Iranian authorities apparently accused her of overthrowing plans and the establishment of a network critical of the government and sentenced her to five years in prison in a private hearing in September 2016. In August 2018, she was given three days of detention, during which she was allowed to see her daughter again.

On November 1, 2017, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appeared before a parliamentary committee and noted that before she was arrested, Zaghari-Ratcliffe had done nothing but teach journalism to people. He later withdrew, but the Iranian court retrospectively cited his words as evidence of Zaghari-Ratcliffe's guilt and was charged with "propaganda against the regime".

In addition to Johnson's misstep, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's continued imprisonment is also partly due to a foreign debt of the British government, which has burdened relations between states since the 1970s. The Shah's regime in 1971 ordered and paid for 1,500 Chieftain tanks and other armored vehicles from an armaments company of the British Ministry of Defense , but the vehicles were never delivered because of the fall of the regime and the contract was canceled in 1979. However, the £ 375 million already paid by Iran has not been refunded and has been the subject of legal battle since then. Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in September 2019 that the British government had offered to obtain the release of the money if Zarif advocated the release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe. However, no agreement was reached and the new Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt , rejected the offer. According to Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson , the Iranian Defense Ministry cannot be given any money while the US is trying to cut off the state's sources of income.

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  1. ↑ a b Iran says it considered exchanging Zaghari-Ratcliffe for £ 400m owed by UK. In: theguardian.com. September 23, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c d aar / dpa: After three days of imprisonment in Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is back in prison. In: Spiegel Online . August 27, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What is Iran jail case about?" BBC January 14, 2019
  4. ↑ Iran: British woman has to serve full sentence. suedostschweiz.ch, June 23, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b "Fears for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after Boris Johnson remark" BBC of November 6, 2017
  6. ↑ Patrick Wintour: Court ruling over tanks debt deals new blow to UK-Iran relations. In: theguardian.com. July 26, 2019, accessed May 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Nazanin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Iranian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran