(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 13 – After three weeks, Richard Ratcliffe interrupted the hunger strike launched to urge the British government to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran for the release of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Anglo-Iranian citizen employee of the Thomson-Reuters foundation arrested in 2016 during a visit to her country of origin and sentenced on the basis of controversial allegations of espionage and hostile propaganda, which she always denied. “Today I promised Nazanin to end the hunger strike. Gabriella needs two parents,” the man explained on Twitter, referring to his 7-year-old daughter.
In the post, Richard Ratcliffe appears physically distressed in front of the Foreign Office in London, where he conducted much of his protests. Like numerous observers, the man denounces that his wife is hostage to a ten-year dispute between Iran and Great Britain over a debt of 400 million pounds unpaid by London for military supplies preceding the ousting of the shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in the 1979. Last month the authorities in Tehran rejected a new appeal against the woman’s sentence, ruling that she will have to remain in prison for another year. The case will be at the center of a debate in the London Parliament on Tuesday, as announced by Congressman Tulip Siddiq. (HANDLE).
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