Supporters of the jailed UK-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe demonstrating outside the Iranian embassy in London last February. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Iran on spying charges in April 2016. – EPA pic, March 8, 2019.
BRITAIN said yesterday it will grant “diplomatic protection” to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a UK-Iranian dual citizen jailed in Tehran since 2016, citing a lack of due process and access to medical treatment. “I have today decided that the UK will take a step that is extremely unusual and exercise diplomatic protection,” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement.
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