Almost five years ago, Nazanine Zaghari Ratcliffe, a British citizen, was visiting her family in Iran with her baby daughter when she was arrested and imprisoned for spying.

The British Iranian woman imprisoned by Iran on charges of sedition.

He's undergone solitary confinement.

It's usually made worse by extreme sensory deprivation.

She was charged with attempting to overthrow the government of Iran.

But now, the Times has uncovered a very different

reason for her incarceration. Nazanin was explicitly told that she was being held in connection

with a 40-year debt owed by Britain to Iran. Has the British government done enough to help Nazanin?

And would they step in if any British citizen was falsely imprisoned by a foreign government?

I was shocked that they would say even in the case where a British citizen is being tortured,

that they have no obligations.

Essentially, you've got more rights if you trip up on

the pavement compared to if you're taken hostage by another government over your government's

debt. You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvim Rana. Today, the truth behindine-Zeghari Ratcliffe's imprisonment in Iran.

So my name's Richard Ratcliffe. I'm the husband of Nazanine's Guy Ratcliffe, and I've been campaigning on Nazanin's case now for almost five years. Nazanin was taken prisoner back in April of

2016 when she went to Iran for a family holiday with our daughter,

Gabriela at that point was 22 months, and she's still being held in Iran to this day.

The Iranian authorities arrested Nazanin at the airport in Tehran in April 2016,

just as she was about to get on a flight back home to London with her daughter,

Gabriella. There's footage of the moment when she's apprehended. We can see her in Tehran's Imam

Khomeini airport with her baggage trolley handing over her passport. She looks confused at first,

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