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7:30 AM December 31, 2020
Richard and Gabriella Ratcliffe put a decoration on the Free Nazanin Christmas Tree outside Budgens in Belsize Village.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been in detained in Iran since April 2016.
She has been threatened, held in solitary confinement, denied healthcare and been repeatedly harassed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
She may not currently be in prison, but the electronic tag around her ankle (which her family had to pay for themselves) doesn t let her so much as visit a shop.
She has been driven to multiple hunger strikes, and had a second trial and longer imprisonment used to keep her and her family in line.
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