Worker-communist Party of Iran – UK Organisation: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be freed immediately and unconditionally

25 June 2019

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen, was arrested by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards on 3^rd April 2016 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport while returning to the UK from a family holiday in Iran. She was arrested on the bogus charge of ‘spying for the British intelligence service’. She was taken to a prison, and her two-year-old daughter was handed over to Nazanin’s parents.

Richard Ratcliffe, Nazanin’s husband, has been fighting since 2016 to get his wife released. Following Nazanin’s decision this month to start a hunger strike on their daughter’s 5^th birthday in protest against her sentencing and imprisonment, Richard Ratcliffe has joined his wife by also going on hunger strike, since 15 June, outside the Islamic Republic’s Embassy in London. His three demands are:

1. Nazanin’s immediate release;
   2. Granting of immediate access to representatives of the British Embassy in Tehran to visit Nazanin to check up on her health;
2. A visa to be granted to Richard to travel to Iran as long as Nazanin is still in prison.

We support Mr Ratcliffe’s demands and call for Nazanin’s immediate and unconditional release. We call on all to show their solidarity with Mr Ratcliffe and his demands by joining him in front of the Iranian Embassy in London and/or in any other way that they can.

Worker-communist Party of Iran – UK Organisation