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Zaghari-Ratcliffe demands release of dual nationals ‘unjustly detained’ in Iran
(left to right) Roxanne Tahbaz, the daughter of Morad Tahbaz, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe during a press conference hosted by their local MP Tulip Siddiq, in the Macmillan Room, Portcullis House, London, following her release from detention in Iran last week

NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE called for the release of other dual nationals “unjustly” detained in Iran today. 

Speaking publicly for the first time since her return home, the 43-year-old hit out at the British government for taking six years to secure her release from detention. 

“What’s happened now should have happened six years ago. I shouldn’t have been in prison for six years,” she told a press conference. 

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