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Emrys

(7,941 posts) Wed Mar 16, 2022, 07:05 AM Mar 2022

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on way home to UK. UPDATE: Now back in the UK

Last edited Wed Mar 16, 2022, 11:39 PM - Edit history (2)

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran nearly six years ago, is on her way to the UK, her MP has said.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was at the airport in Tehran, Tulip Siddiq told BBC News.

She is in a holding room with fellow British-Iranian detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, she said.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 - accused of plotting to overthrow Iran's government, which she denied.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60756870

Latest reports from a number of sources are that her plane has now taken off safely.

No doubt Johnson and Truss will preen and gloat later when she finally lands, but nobody should forget that her captivity might have ended years ago had Johnson not opened his stupid gob at the wrong moment, and even then, her and her family's ordeal could have almost certainly been cut short if the government had settled its debt to Iran earlier.

UPDATE

Link to tweet

Alex Tiffin
@RespectIsVital

NEW - The moment you have all been waiting for!

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashouri reunited with their families.

#NazaninIsFree

[Twitter video]

It looks like the Ratcliffes' reunion took place behind the privacy screens, but here they are: