'There are people there who are like zombies' Anoosheh Ashoori describes what it was like spending five years in an Iranian jail.
On 17 March,- walked down the steps of a plane at RAF Brize Norton.
"He's ill and needs medical attention," he said. "Sometimes I think it should have been him instead of me on that plane, and the guilty feeling you have that you have left all these good people behind is really painful. That is something I cannot come to terms with. I urge Mr Johnson to complete this good work and to make sure that they are back - Morad and the other British nationals.
Threats were made against his family and he tried several times to take his own life, thwarted only by prison guards. It was memories of his family, and the camaraderie of fellow-inmates, that kept him sane. "When you are in your cell, you're always looking behind you. You're always trying to remember all the good memories that you had with your family. You're living in your memories.""It ended up with eight of us who would regularly meet in one of the rooms. Among us was a satirist. He said he could teach us how to write short stories.
The question in her mind, and in that of Mr Ashoori, is why it has taken so long to get him back home.