Britain set to grant UK-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection due to her 'unacceptable treatment' since she was jailed in Iran in 2016
The British government believes that Iran has behaved Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe unjustly as she was convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.
Britain will hand diplomatic protection to British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to underline the government's belief that Iran has behaved unjustly in its treatment of her, foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit.She was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment, a charge denied by her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News.
Diplomatic protection is a mechanism under international law through which a state may seek reparation for injury to one of its nationals on the basis that the second state has committed an internationally wrongful act against that person."We have been working hard to secure her release but despite repeated efforts have not been successful.
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