Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe

Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe is an IranianBritish dual citizen detained in Iran from 3 April 2016 as part of a longrunning dispute between Britain and Iran. In early September 2016, she was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of plotting to topple the Iranian government. While in prison, she went on at least three hunger strikes to persuade Iranian authorities to provide medical treatment for her health problems. She was temporarily released on 17 March 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic in Iran but subject to electronic monitoring.

In October 2017, the prosecutor general of Tehran made a new claim that ZaghariRatcliffe was being held for running "a BBC Persian online journalism course which was aimed at recruiting and training people to spread propaganda against Iran". ZaghariRatcliffe has always denied the spying charges against her, and her husband maintains that his wife "was imprisoned as leverage for a debt owed by the UK over its failure to deliver tanks to Iran in 1979."

On 7 March 2021, her original sentence ended, but she was scheduled to face a second set of charges on 14 March. On 26 April, she was found guilty of propaganda activities against the government and sentenced to another year in prison. She appealed, but on 16 October 2021, her appeal was rejected by the Iranian court. ZaghariRatcliffe was finally released on 16 March 2022, immediately after Britain repaid the outstanding debt of £393.8 million to Iran.[14] She returned to the United Kingdom the next day.