The husband of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe began a hunger strike in solidarity with his wife, who has been detained for more than three years in Iran on spying charges
The British-Iranian charity worker took the decision to go on hunger strike again Saturday after her daughter Gabriella turned five years old on June 11 while she remains locked up, her husband Richard Ratcliffe told CNN from outside the embassy on Sunday. "She's not playing now," he said. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained for more than three years in Iran on spying charges.
"It's a really simple way of giving a message and not much else seems to work," he added.Iran's ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, reacted to Richard Ratcliffe's protest Saturday, claiming in a tweet that demonstrators were blocking the entrance to the embassy. Ratcliffe refutes that they are blocking the entrance.Amnesty International's UK director, Kate Allen, said in a statement:"This is a truly heartbreaking situation.
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