Amnesty International UK
Nazanin
was at Tehran airport, about to catch a flight home to the UK after
visiting her family back in Iran, when she and her two-year-old daughter
Gabriella were approached by officials believed to be from Iran’s
Revolutionary Guard. The officials arrested Nazanin and confiscated
Gabriella’s passport.
That was back at the start of April. Now, over six months later, Nazanin has just been told that she will spend five years behind bars – although the authorities have never explained why they detained her in the first place.
Nazanin’s imprisonment follows that of Kamal Foroughi, another UK-Iranian citizen imprisoned on vague ‘espionage’ charges in 2011. Kamal was also kept in solitary confinement before being convicted at an unfair trial of charges he did not know about until the day before the court hearing.
Some UK politicians have raised concerns about the imprisonment of Nazanin and Kamal – but we need the UK Foreign Secretary to step up and raise their cases with the Iranian authorities at the highest level.
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