Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an Iranian-British dual citizen who has been detained in Iran since April 3, 2016.
In September 2016, she was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of “plotting to topple the Iranian government”.
The prosecutor general of Tehran revealed in October 2017 that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was being held for running “a BBC Persian online journalism course which was aimed at recruiting and training people to spread propaganda against Iran”.
She was temporarily released on 17 March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, while being monitored.
On 7 March 2021, her initial sentence ended, but she was scheduled to face a second set of charges on 14 March.
Gabriella Ratcliffe: Where is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter?
Gabriella Ratcliffe is the daughter of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe.
Gabriella Ratcliffe born June 2014 is 7 years old as of 2021.
Gabriella went with her mother to Iran in March 2016 to visit her grandparents. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at an Iranian airport that April while traveling home to London with Gabriella.
After the arrests, the little girl’s passport was confiscated and she lived with her mother’s family.
On October 11, 2019, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter returned to her father in the United Kingdom to start school.