Murad Tahbaz's daughter holds sit-in in front of the British Foreign Office building in London

Roxanne Tahbaz, the daughter of Morad Tahbaz, a triple-national environmental activist who is imprisoned in Iran, protested her father's continued imprisonment by staging a sit-in in front of the British Foreign Office building in London on Wednesday, April 14.

Ms. Tahbaz told reporters at the sit-in, which was held in conjunction with Amnesty International, that she and her family were protesting the British Foreign Office's failure to follow up on her father's situation.

According to Amnesty International in the UK, Roxanne Tahbaz hopes that British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has heard their message and requests.

"All we ask of him is to bring our father home," she said.

Ms. Tahbaz expressed her happiness over the return of Nazanin Zaghari and Anousheh Ansari to Britain and their reunification with their families, saying, "But my father has been forgotten. This is not right, this is a terrible betrayal and it must be corrected."

"Our parents must be brought home immediately and without any conditions. We must unite," he added.

During the exchange of dual-national prisoners between the British government and the Islamic Republic that took place in late March of last year, Morad Tahbaz, a British-American citizen of Iranian descent, was also supposed to be released, but British officials told Tahbaz's family that they had delegated the resolution of his problem to the American government.

Sasha Deshmukh, head of Amnesty International in the UK, told VOA that holding other citizenships does not negate Britain's responsibility in this regard, and ordinary citizens should not be made victims of political conflicts.

He, who is accompanying Roxanne Tahbaz in front of the British Foreign Office building to support the Tahbaz family, said: "The government's work is incomplete. Nazanin and Anousheh are home, but Murad and Mehran Rauf are not."

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ansari, two dual nationals (Iranian-British) who were released from prison in the Islamic Republic of Iran last month after London paid its outstanding debt to Tehran, returned to the UK.

Source: Voice of America