Rally in London for the release of Nazanin Zaghari
A year after the imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen who was arrested at Tehran airport with her young daughter after visiting her family on Nowruz, details of her charges have not yet been announced.
Ms. Zaghari's second year in prison begins on April 4 of this year, when, according to her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, the Revolutionary Guards arrested her on the general charge of "acting for soft subversion."
Ms. Zaghari worked with the educational and charitable arm of the Reuters Foundation.
According to Richard Ratcliffe, when Nazanin was arrested, the officers told her that her passport had a legal problem and that she should hand over their daughter Gabrielle to her grandparents until her situation was clarified.
Gabriel has been in Iran since his mother's arrest and cannot return because security agents have also confiscated his British passport.
Richard's efforts and international pressure to release Nazanin Zaghari have not yielded any results.
Without officially announcing Ms. Zaghari's charges, judicial authorities have announced that her five-year prison sentence has been finalized.
Rally for the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Nazanin's supporters
Meanwhile, the media in Britain, referring to Mr. Ratcliffe's efforts over the past year to release Nazanin, reported on a rally held on Sunday evening, April 4, in a suburb of London.
Mr. Ratcliffe asked supporters of Nazanin's release to tie yellow ribbons with quotes from her cellmates in Evin saying what they hope for one day after their release to trees near their homes on the anniversary of his wife's imprisonment, and to send pictures of these ribbons and quotes, along with their suggestions for helping Nazanin's release, to the Facebook page dedicated to supporting Nazanin.
In an interview with the Persian service of the Voice of America, Mr. Ratcliffe said that Nazanin had said in her message that if she were free for a day, she would like to go home, have her husband pour her tea, and watch her husband and daughter play together while she drank the tea.
He also said that he would like to see his daughter and wife dancing together in the middle of the living room to Michael Jackson's song, as they used to.
Ms. Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist and cellmate of Ms. Zaghari, also said in a message that if she were free one day, she would not hesitate to visit her two ten-year-old children.
These messages, along with those of several other cellmates of Nazanin Zaghari in Evin Prison, were hung from a tree in West Hampstead Park, a suburb of London, at the request of Mr. Ratcliffe. He called the program “One Day, One Tree.”
Source: Voice of America
