Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's release

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe comes home after six years in Iranian detention, Emma speaks to the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP about what it took to secure her release along with another British-Iranian hostage Anoosheh Ashoori.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.4	She is back.
0:13.6	She is free.
0:15.1	After six long years of being imprisoned in Iran, the day has dawned.
0:19.9	At one o'clock this morning, Nazanin Zagari Ratcliffe touched down on British soil to be
0:24.4	reunited with her husband and biggest champion Richard and their seven-year-old daughter,
0:29.7	Abriata.
0:31.0	This is the sound of Nazanin as she arrived and embraced her child at RAF Brise Norton
0:36.0	in Oxfordshire.
1:00.4	And Nazanin Zagari Ratcliffe reunited with her daughter Gabriela back in her arms and
1:06.3	with Richard, her husband and longtime freedom campaigner.
1:10.1	That clip is from the Instagram account of Alika Aschore, the daughter of a new Shae Aschore
1:14.2	of fellow British Iranian who was also freed yesterday and flew back with Nazanin.
1:19.9	We've been in touch with Richard Ratcliffe a man I've had the privilege of speaking to
1:23.2	many times over the years and the family are looking forward to starting a more normal
1:27.2	chapter and focusing on recovery.
1:30.6	Nazanin, a British Iranian charity worker, was arrested in Iran in 2016 while visiting
1:35.3	her parents and has spent six years in detention after being convicted of plotting to overthrow
1:40.6	the Iranian government.
1:42.2	Charges, she has always denied.
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