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Nazanin sentenced to another year in jail.

51 replies

Clawdy · 26/04/2021 13:07

Horrendous. This could go on forever. Johnson has said it is "very wrong" ! The government have done nothing to help.

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IhateBoswell · 26/04/2021 13:13

Absolutely disgusting. That poor lady Sad

ineedaholidaynow · 26/04/2021 13:15

So awful.

RuggeryBuggery · 26/04/2021 13:17

No! Sad
So so awful

Spudlet · 26/04/2021 13:19

I actually exclaimed out loud when I saw this. Poor, poor woman. My heart is aching for her and her family. It’s just horrific. Sad

52andblue · 26/04/2021 13:19

oh bloody hell - poor woman, she is missing her child growing up
It's been an awful year to be a woman, and it's only april still :(

ButtonMoonLoon · 26/04/2021 13:22

And after that she is prohibited from leaving the country for another year. So two more years without her daughter and husband.
And who’s to say they won’t invent yet another charge against her in that time?
It’s simply barbaric. :(

GirlCrush · 26/04/2021 13:22

What are the government not doing that they could be?

Sounds horrific all round, not overly familiar with this story

Wishingwell75 · 26/04/2021 13:24

I wish there was something I could do, we could do. It's so heartbreakingly unjust. I don't believe the government have done anything close to what they could. I feel awful for her and her family.

itsgettingwierd · 26/04/2021 13:25

I tried to find out last week if anything had happened after the court case.

My heart just plummeted into the pit of my stomach reading your thread title.

That poor poor woman. Being used as a political tool. Her poor husband and daughter as well.

This is even more despicable now AngrySad

JackieLavertysWeirdVoice · 26/04/2021 13:27

Fucking hell, why won't our government act?

paralysedbyinertia · 26/04/2021 13:28

@Spudlet

I actually exclaimed out loud when I saw this. Poor, poor woman. My heart is aching for her and her family. It’s just horrific. Sad
I exclaimed out loud when I heard this too. Well, actually, I swore out loud.

I am so disappointed in our government's seeming inability to influence this case. Are they incapable or just not trying hard enough?

I feel so terribly sorry and angry, for Nazanin herself, her husband and her poor little girl. It's awful.

Mumof3girlsandaboy · 26/04/2021 13:30

Absolutely awful. I’m just thinking about her husband and her daughter.

EssentialHummus · 26/04/2021 13:31

Disgraceful. She used to live five minutes from me, I can’t stop thinking about her little one.

DoTheNextRightThing · 26/04/2021 13:31

Apparently the reason they have struggled to get her out is because she was born in Iran and Iran don’t acknowledge dual citizenship, so to the Iranian government they have no reason to listen to what the British government have to say because she’s not British. If that makes sense.

Of course if Boris hadn't come out with a comment that ended up used against her in evidence, maybe she wouldn't be in such a mess 🙄

CloudPop · 26/04/2021 13:33

It's just too awful

Rhannion · 26/04/2021 13:39

It’s absolutely terrible, poor woman and that gutless bastard fool Johnson and his cohorts have done very little to help her.

CatrinVennastin · 26/04/2021 13:56

@DoTheNextRightThing absolutely spot on. Yet another Boris cock up.

Xenia · 26/04/2021 14:03

It is disgusting. It is so hard to deal with Iran on all kinds of levels. If we intervene it can be worse for people in these situations but sometimes it isn't. At least the daughter got back to the UK when she was about 5 to live with her father and start full time school here otherwise she might in a sense have been lost to both parents - the mother as goodness knows how long she will be held and the father because the child being in Iran with grandparents would have lost bonds with the father and English skills.

itsgettingwierd · 26/04/2021 14:03

@DoTheNextRightThing

Apparently the reason they have struggled to get her out is because she was born in Iran and Iran don’t acknowledge dual citizenship, so to the Iranian government they have no reason to listen to what the British government have to say because she’s not British. If that makes sense.

Of course if Boris hadn't come out with a comment that ended up used against her in evidence, maybe she wouldn't be in such a mess 🙄

Yes I read that about dual citizenship before too.

Which makes it clearer to me this is political. They've deliberately targeted an Iranian born woman married to a Brit

GertiMJN · 26/04/2021 14:03

What devastating news for this family. It beggars belief. My heart goes out to them all. I can't imagine how they begin to face this.Sad
It seems equally unbelievable that there is nothing more that our government could do Angry

JanFebAnyMonth · 26/04/2021 14:06

The reason why the government’s efforts have failed is, I suspect rather more to do with politics and arms than technical nationality issues:

Confirming the latest sentence, her husband Richard Ratcliffe told the BBC the court's decision was a bad sign and "clearly a negotiating tactic" by the Iranian authorities - who are in the middle of discussions over the country's nuclear activities. (BBC news)

JanFebAnyMonth · 26/04/2021 14:08

And I assumed the one year travel ban was concurrent with the jail sentence - just a “belt and braces” type (bullying) approach?

Mincepiesallyearround · 26/04/2021 14:19

It’s so awful. Doesn’t the UK have a historic debt to repay to Iran (from decades ago) and that is causing a big problem...

Gladimnotcampinginthisweather · 26/04/2021 14:22

So sad. 😕

Chatanooga1 · 26/04/2021 14:23

I don’t know anything about this woman other than she has been convicted on spying charges and had connections from working with the media.

Why is everyone so sure she must be freed or is innocent?