Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British officials watched me sign 'dehumanising' false confession

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : She was freed after the UK settled a historic debt to Iran.
47% : Her release finally came after the UK government paid a £400 million debt to Iran dating back to the 1970s.
44% : She said she was taken by the Revolutionary Guards to the airport and did not see her parents, who reside in Tehran.
44% : Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested on spying charges while visiting her parents in Iran, with her then two-year-old daughter Gabriella, in April 2016.
43% : She has always denied those allegations and said that she was only in Iran to visit her family.
38% : The 43-year-old Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran from 3 April 2016 to 16 March 2022 under charges of espionage for the British Government.
29% : While in Iran in September 2016, she was accused of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government and was given a five-year sentence.

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