To wonder if mumsnet could use its influence to lobby MPs over Nazanin

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Genuine question as I have found the whole case so upsetting - politicians recognise the influence of mumsnet- it’s a large demographic of women mainly mums.

There is a mum being held in an overseas prison & now separated from her young daughter who is back in the uk with no idea when she will see her little girl again. And a 5 year old child not knowing when she will see her mum again.

Nazanin seems to be a political pawn for Iran and it’s truly awful. Could we have a petition lobbying Dominic Raab & Boris Johnson asking them to do more to get her home?

Aibu?

The Iranian embassy reacted badly to Richard Ratcliffes hunger strike - can't see them responding to letters tbh.

Boris has fucked it up twice now, cannot understand how the party members voted for him to lead the country.

I'll write one too. It does seem futile, but better than doing nothing. Who knows, it might snowball and 1000s of letters end up at the embassy. If there's even the smallest chance it will help, I'm in.

My hunch has always been that she was there for reasons other than seeing family. I always thought that. Then when BJ did what he did, I thought it might have been more like a Freudian slip than completely baseless information.

I'm loathe to be involved unless the truth seems more truthful to me.

I've posted this before but it looks at her imprisonment

redress.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/October-2017-ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE-Opinion-on-HR-violations.pdf

And what, teaching journalism, (which she wasn't according to Redress) deserves a prison sentence and inhumane treatment?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/06/19/boris-johnson-says-mistake-made-no-difference-mum-jailed-iran-10012308/amp/

Nazanin has absolutely nothing to do with the arms deal—she’s just a convenient hostage, and as past posters have said, similar things have happened before. What hasn’t happened before is a member of the foreign office who’s supposed to be trying to get someone out instead being stupid or careless enough to not only fail to familiarise himself with the case, but to pick up the Iranian accusation (she was a spy) and back it up by saying she was training journalists! Boris won’t want to publicise this case as it reinforces his incompetence.

I've always been upset by this case. I can't believe it has gone on for so long. I remember my little girl being about the same age as hers when she was imprisoned and my heart hurt at the idea of being taken from my baby. And letting her out last year must have given them all such hope that this nightmare was finally nearing an end but it was false hope.

And why does this case not get more media attention?

Thanks tottie, I'll write too. Cant make things worse and you never know, it might hit someone who's looking for a political way out of the situation at the right moment.

I'll check back in when I've written.

I will send a letter

Thank you for trying to do something

Bumping in case anyone else is willing to write a letter.

Being locked up away from your small children on no evidence whatsoever is the stuff of nightmares.

Im following this too. Should we be asking her husband if there is something we should do? We dont want to make the situation worse by not knowing something going on behind the scenes?

I thought that was a good point Bilbo. I have emailed Redresswho have a current appeal for Nazanin's legal needs to ask if they think writing letters could somehow make things worse.

Email text:

Dear friends,

A few of us on Mumsnet have discussed writing letters to the Iranian authorities as mothers appealing for mercy for Nazanin as a mother herself.

Can you advise if you think this has the potential to make things worse for her? Obviously we won't do this if so.

Thank you

[Name and address supplied]

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Trying to approach her husband on behalf on MN when they haven't agreed any buy in seems slightly odd.

Nazanin herself wrote an open letter this week. When I get home to better signal, I’ll see if there was context to that that might give us a steer.

Because she is a dual national ( uk and Iran) Britain cannot offer her help as she is in the country of her other citizenship plus Britain cannot intervene in the Iranian legal system.

Iran does not recognise dual citizenship so to them she is just Iranian, not British

Why do you want to do something now? Have you been involved with any of the previous rallies, demonstrations and petitions organised by Richard?

Well as part of the reasons for those is raising awareness id say its worked, no?

And yes, personally I've been signing sharing and donating for as long as I can remember being aware of this.