Charity worker’s husband demands transparency from No 10 amid fears she is being used as ‘bargaining chip’ in nuclear talks
Richard Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella protesting for Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release in Parliament Square last September.Richard Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella protesting for Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release in Parliament Square last September., the British-Iranian charity worker detained in Iran, has said she is “very, very angry” after learning about the collapse of a deal to bring her home.
She was released temporarily in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, but was handed a further sentence in 2021 for “spreading propaganda” and is held under house arrest in Tehran, unable to return to the UK to join her husband and seven-year-old daughter, Gabriella. In response to Siddiq’s question, Boris Johnson said the debt was “difficult to settle and square away for all sorts of reasons to do with sanctions”.
He said his wife was “amazed” by the prime minister’s comments. She told him: “I could have been home last year. Why am I still here? They have ruined my life, day by day, for six years. Where is [Johnson’s] urgency? I just want to come home.” Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, has urged transparency about the reasons for the collapse of the deal. “My constituent, Richard, starved himself almost to death during a. He didn’t eat for three weeks. I think they have a duty to explain themselves,” she said.
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