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Nazanin detention amounts to torture: UK's top diplomat British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab leaves 10 Downing Street in London, United Kingdom on March 25, 2021 [David Cliff - Anadolu Agency] May 2, 2021 at 6:28 pm The British foreign secretary on Sunday said Iran's repeated sentencing of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to torture, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Dominic Raab accused Tehran of using her as leverage to gain concessions from the UK, and that Iran has an obligation to release her immediately without any conditions. "Nazanin is held unlawfully, in my view, as a matter of international law. I think she's being treated in the most abusive, tortuous way. I think it amounts to torture the way she's being treated," he said.
April 27, 2021 at 7:20 pm A number of people have been arrested in Iran over the years accused of spying against the government. Last year, the authorities arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel, Britain and Germany. They were convicted and at least two were given prison sentences. In July 2017, the authorities rounded up seventeen of its citizens and charged them with spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Accusations of espionage have also been levelled at many Iranians in the diaspora, especially journalists and charity workers. Supporters hold a photo of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a vigil for British-Iranian mother imprisoned in Tehran outside the Iranian Embassy on 16 January 2017 in London, UK [Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images]