Jailed Brit mum given diplomatic protection in a bid to free her from Iran

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Jailed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe given diplomatic protection in a bid to free her from Iran

JEREMY Hunt last night gave Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection in a bid to free the British mum from jail in Iran.

diplomatic protection means she will be treated as a state v state dispute rather than just a consular issue.on charges of wrongful imprisonment.prison - accused of spying. While he acknowledged the move was unlikely to be a “magic wand” that secures her immediate release, he said it elevated the dispute over her detention to a formal state-to-state issue., who has been lobbying ministers to take the step for some time.

My decision is an important diplomatic step which signals to Tehran that its behaviour is totally wrongIn reaching his decision, Mr Hunt said he had taken into account Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s “unacceptable treatment” by Iran since she was detained in 2016, including the denial of medical treatment and the lack of due process in the proceedings against her.said Tehran’s actions had been “totally wrong” and that no state was entitled to use innocent individuals as “pawns for diplomatic leverage”.

 

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