Caroline Hawley
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BBC Diplomatic Correspondent interested in the human impact of international news. Previously in Iraq - and various other parts of the Middle East.
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A former Iranian policeman due to be deported to Rwanda tomorrow has been told by the Home Office that his ticket has been cancelled. He'd been sentenced to jail in Iran after he ordered his men not to use fire-arms to control nation-wide protests in November 2019.
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Today, Gabriella Ratcliffe turns 7 - the family have only spent one of her birthdays, her 1st, together
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"Bahram" had fled to Turkey.
After giving evidence remotely to an inquiry in London, his father in Iran was arrested and his 11-year old interrogated to find out his whereabouts. He no longer felt safe and escaped, getting on a boat that arrived in the UK in May
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I've been told those still due to be expelled to Rwanda tonight are 2 Iraqi Kurds, 3 Iranians, 1 Albanian and 1 Vietnamese man. One of the Iraqi Kurds is said to be extremely distressed and on suicide watch in Brook House detention centre
@followMFJ
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One man's drastic stand against Iran's IRGC. More than 5 weeks without food. His supporters are appealing to him to end the hunger strike for his own safety
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Gracious to the end, the soft-spoken accountant with a will of steel who has starved himself for the wife he adores for almost 3 weeks ...
Day 21
#FreeNazanin
Today I have promised Nazanin to end the hunger strike
Gabriella needs two parents
Thank you all for your overwhelming care these past three weeks
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It's the standing on the chair that gets me here, Gabriella having to be so grown-up, the stakes so high for this family who haven't been together for 5 and a half years ...
“It means a lot to me and my cell mates. I hope one day we may live in a world where we do not have to fight for our freedom”: Gabriella Nazanin-Ratcliffe, 7, reads a message from her jailed mother Nazanin, the U.K.-Iranian national jailed over 2,000 days ago
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2,000 days since she was arrested - a family separated for well over 5 YEARS. Nazanin's husband, Richard, and daughter Gabriella will mark the day with the family of Anoosheh Ashoori calling for government action. Last night, Iran again demanded the UK repay its £400 million debt
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Last month we reported on Mustafa whose mum and dad were killed in a barrel bomb in Syria - which injured him so badly he spent a year in hospital. Happy to say that he and his sister and grandmother have now arrived to start a new life in Australia!
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Richard Ratcliffe is "disappointed" that the embassy won't be accompanying Nazanin to tomorrow's court hearing in Tehran. Nazanin herself is - as you might imagine - extremely tense and nervous
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe celebrates a 6th birthday far from her London home. Richard and Gabriella can only see her on a phone screen. And anyone who's had to isolate this Xmas knows what a poor substitute that is for being with the people you love in the flesh
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This has been incredible viewing on the plight of Nazanin's family - and there's more to come on BBC News ..
Day 20 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike at Foreign Office. He tells me he’s ‘outraged’at the way the government ‘is letting his wife’s detention in Iran drag on’.
Mr Ratcliffe is with us all morning live on
@BBCNews
9am
What’s your message to him & Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
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This tells you all you need to know about Richard Ratcliffe and Nazanin - they're okay now, but thinking about Morad who's been left behind. Apparently Nazanin spoke to his family today, on her first day back home with her own family
So lovely to have uplifting conversations with Richard and Nazanin today.
They are both relentless in their pursuit of justice and raised the plight of Morad Tahbaz with me. Here I was hoping to sleep for a week…
Here’s their first family selfie!
#NazaninIsFree
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Forthright and funny, composed and dignified. After 6 years of hearing about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ordeal in Iran, today we finally got to hear her voice.
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"I'm so lucky that I found her," Richard tells
@VictoriaLIVE
of meeting his wife, Nazanin. Says they're just "an ordinary family bumbling our way through this." Incredibly moving interviews with him and his family on
@BBCNews
today and with Anoosheh Ashoori's daughter, Elika
Day 20 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike at Foreign Office. He tells me he’s ‘outraged’at the way the government ‘is letting his wife’s detention in Iran drag on’.
Mr Ratcliffe is with us all morning live on
@BBCNews
9am
What’s your message to him & Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
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"It doesn't come back. Those years are gone .. We just hope there aren't more years to go." Richard Ratcliffe as he and Gabriella prepare for a 6th Christmas without Nazaznin
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016.
Her husband has told
#BBCBreakfast
how he and their young daughter are preparing to spend their sixth Christmas without her.
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The Foreign Office has summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires over Iran’s crackdown on protests following the death of Mahsa Amini.
@JamesCleverly
said the level of violence used by security forces was “truly shocking”
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A man with a ready smile whose humanity touched us all. George Alagiah really was the best of the BBC - and he'll be deeply missed
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A picture speaks so many words. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, with daughter Gabriella, as she prepares to leave her and go back to jail
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert says despite her "long and traumatic ordeal" in jail in Iran and the "injustices" she's been subjected to: "I came to Iran as a friend and with friendly intentions, and depart Iran with those sentiments not only still intact, but strengthened"
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agonising wait today for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family to see if she's been granted clemency - and still no news. Nazanin had nightmares last night. the strain of not knowing whether you're heading home or heading back to jail is hard to bear
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Another amazing image from Iran, as the regime continues to crack down
#Iran
today… many analysts are wondering: Is the world witnessing the first women’s revolution?
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@followMFJ
apparently he only arrived on 17th May - was forced to work along the route by traffickers as he couldn't pay. the other Iraqi Kurd says he fled the Middle East after his father started beating him
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The importance of knowing that people care ..
Thank you to the many MPs from all parties who participated and spoke in yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate, led by our amazing MP
@TulipSiddiq
Nazanin was able to watch the debate from Iran, and told me it made her cry.
Your care moved us all.
#FreeNazanin
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As Nazanin and her family prepare for a 6th Christmas apart, a new festive hit? New single by 1980s pop band, the Christians, aims to keep them in the public eye. First released in 1991 for British journalist, John McCarthy, being held hostage by militants in Beirut.
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Morad's family say he's "shattered" to have been left behind in the deal that secured Nazanin and Anoosheh's release. He's 66 and has cancer.
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"A man of great judgement and values. A great friend who taught me so much about living." Beautiful tribute from
@sophieraworth
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Profoundly moved by the humanity of Noa Argamani's father - who knows no more of what happened to his daughter since she was filmed, terrified, as she was kidnapped into Gaza by motorbike from the music festival
"Let us make peace with our neighbors, in any way possible. I want there to be peace; I want my daughter to come back. Enough with the wars. They too have casualties, they too have captives, and they have mothers who weep. We are two peoples to one Father. Let’s make real peace.”
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'I'm so very glad that void in her world where her mum should have been is now filled." Elika on Gabriella. So happy your Dad is now back with you!
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is meeting Boris Johnson as we speak - big on her agenda is to push him to do more to get British environmentalist, Morad Tahbaz, home. He's still in Evin jail in poor health
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away from Ukraine, Saudi Arabia has just killed 81 men in the biggest mass execution in its modern history
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Fingers crossed that she likes it here ...
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I can't get this out of my head. The utter horror of so many women, children and men drowning inside as it sank. Who were they all? What were they escaping? And what new lives could they have had?
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the culmination of an extraordinary group effort to rescue this group of Afghan girl footballers. the final act, a charter flight out of Pakistan, was organised by a rabbi and paid for by Kim Kardashian. you couldn't make it up!
Great mission accomplished team landed safely in UK 🇬🇧 🛬 Now, time to get as much support as possible to help them in their resettlement process. 130 people made it safe. Thanks to everyone 🙏💪✈️🛬
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Just one small snapshot of the catastrophic consequences of Syria's conflict .. filmed by
@DeeMcIlveen
with
@cswift2
The impact of eight years of war in Syria
This is the story of Rouaa and Mustafa, born the year the war began.
More from
@CarolineHawley
on
#BBCNewsTen
bulletin
@BBCOne
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He's 77 years old, yet this American man - a former hostage in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution - is putting his health on the line in the hope that it'll help free current hostages from several Western countries. Among them Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori
Day 3 of my hunger strike. This morning I proudly joined the Iranian-Austrian community for their
#FreeTheHostages
demonstration. Together, we are demanding that no deal should be made with Iran until the freedom of the hostages is guaranteed. Thank you all for your support.
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2 unstinting campaigns - one aim. Getting the British nationals held in Iran home
Good to see so much support for
@FreeNazanin
. Please tweet or write to your MP asking them to take action for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori - British Nationals who have been arbitrarily detained in Iran.
#FreeNazanin
#FreeAnoosheh
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Anoosheh is still pinching himself that he's home - but says he can't properly celebrate until the London-born wildlife conservationist, Morad Tahbaz, is out of that "hell"
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Brilliant news for one woman, one family - Aras Amiri was arrested in Tehran in 2018 while visiting her grandmother, accused of spying and sentenced to 10 years. Now she's home. Families of others detained in Iran watch and wait and hope ..
We are pleased to confirm that British Council employee Aras Amiri has been acquitted in Iran of all charges following a successful appeal lodged by her lawyer. She has returned to the UK.
Read the full statement on our website:
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Very proud of my son's specially-designed superhero, "Life-changer man." He shoots cold air out of his extra long arm - to help stop global warming. If only ...
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it would be good to know exactly how sanctions affect Britain's ability to repay the £400 million tank debt and what makes it so "difficult to settle and square away"
Labour MP Tulip Siddiq asks PM why an agreement with Iran fell through and "why Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe still isn't home after six long years"
Boris Johnson replies "we remain committed to securing the release of Nazanin"
#PMQs
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with a birthday cake for her daughter, but her daughter thousands of miles away .. And still no news on clemency
Again no decision on clemency.
This morning Nazanin called the Prosecutors Office, as requested, for a decision on her clemency. Like last week, she has been asked to call back on Wednesday.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been given a one-year sentence and one year travel ban on charges of propaganda against the regime. Her husband, Richard, says she's not been summoned to prison at this point. He said the verdict was a really bad sign and they will appeal
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The devoted and desperate sisters of
@alaa
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Incredibly powerful image from Tehran students
By painting their hands red, students pay tribute to protesters killed during continuing
#IranProtests2022
, Tehran Markaz University, Oct9. #مهسا_امینی
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At 68, Anoosheh Ashoori is running the London Marathon in prison uniform - reminding the world of the torment he went through in Iran, and of the injustice so many Iranians are still facing
In authentic Evin uniform he smuggled out of prison, my dad
@freeanoosheh
will run the marathon today, having raised over £17k for
@AmnestyUK
&
@Hostage_Intl
, dedicating his run to the freedom of Iranian women, political prisoners and in hope of the freedom of Iran
#Mahsa_Amini
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On day 16 of Richard Ratcliffe's hunger strike, Liz Truss spoke by phone to Iranian counterpart. He urged UK to settle its military debt. FCDO response:“We continue to explore options to resolve this 40 year old case and will not comment further as legal discussions are ongoing.”
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Today, Richard Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike outside the FCDO in Whitehall to push the government to take stronger action to get his wife, Nazanin, home. Wants the PM to settle the tank debt and call her a "hostage" of the Iranian state
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It's the details of Nazanin's abuse that really get to me, deliberate cruelty. In solitary confinement, a female guard made her listen to loud conversations with her own child, while she was desperately missing Gabriella. One sanitary pad allowed a month.
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Amnesty International: “Expelling people seeking asylum to Rwanda – a country with its own asylum and human rights challenges to address - is irresponsible, callous and a disaster in the making .. a desperate and dismal repeat of a now-abandoned deal struck by Israel"
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Director of al-Shifa says it's now run out of oxygen and water, 4 dialysis patients in critical condition.“The conditions are tragic and those in the hospital are screaming from thirst.” Describes tanks surrounding the hospital, drones overhead and Israeli soldiers moving inside
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"Richard showed us what love really means," says
@TulipSiddiq
of the man who went on hunger strike for 3 weeks to get Nazanin home.
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And, Rebecca says, she slept last night between her parents for the first time in almost 6 years ..
A little girl has finally got her Mummy and Daddy back. To all those that helped make this possible, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
#NazaninIsFree
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One of those due to be deported to Rwanda on Tuesday is an Iranian former police major, sentenced to jail for refusing orders to shoot on protestors in 2019. He's petrified
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The smile of a baby - a small human achievement amid the horror in Gaza, currently under pulverising air-strikes.
Watch: In a heartwarming moment amid all the ruins and destruction in Gaza, a man tries to comfort a baby who survived an Israeli airstrike.
#Israel
#Gaza
#Palestine
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At almost 68, Anoosheh Ashoori is refusing food in a Tehran prison cell - his family say he's being held hostage over the £400 million debt which Britain owes Iran for a decades-old tank deal that was never fulfilled
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She says: "I have nothing but respect, love and admiration for the great nation of Iran and its warm-hearted, generous and brave people." A friend said she'd learned Farsi in jail and had comforted new prisoners
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His 444 days as a hostage in Iran - after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 - shaped the rest of his life. Now, at 77, he's doing all he can to help get those currently being held in Tehran home - and to support their families.
On Day 3 of my hunger strike I am starting to feel tired. My Austrian-Iranian doctor has found my blood pressure is high which is worrying. I will continue as long as I can. The messages of support from families and hostages themselves help keep me going
#FreeTheHostages
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No news for Nazanin and her family today. So another stressful day in limbo, waiting to hear if she'll have to go back to jail. Amnesty International says: “There should be no question of her being sent back to Evin Prison - not in a few weeks’ time, not ever."
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Richard Ratcliffe says his wife’s ankle tag has been removed but Nazanin has been told that a new court case against her has been scheduled for next Sunday.
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Tonight at 10 we speak to Rouaa and 2 other Syrian 5 year olds about 5 years of war
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Watch the strength of these Syrian children who will never be able to escape the shadow of Syria's war - long after the world has forgotten about it
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I've just heard from a member of Morad Tahbaz's family that he's begun a hunger strike, and been moved to an undisclosed location. All this on Nowroz and what's meant to be a celebration
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A lovely anecdote
The extraordinary moment when the great humanitarian & trauma surgeon David Nott met the Queen, shortly after his return from Aleppo.
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"the volume of dehumanising rhetoric posted during this war has surprised even those who deal with such content on a daily basis" write
@O_Rob1nson
and
@Shayan86
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Jeremy Hunt on the fact it took 6 years to get Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home: "I don't think the British state can look on the totality of what happened with any pride at all"
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The bravery of many Iranian women is incredible. A year after the death of Mahsa Amini, the spirit of defiance it brought into the open is alive and kicking
Undeterred by the threat of lethal state violence, two females in Tehran stood on a platform in peaceful defiance agains the state's forced-hijab law as onlookers cheered + honked on the anniversary of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in
#Iran
.
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
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It should be a simple ask of an ally - is our citizen, in one of your jails, still alive? Sisters of Alaa Abdel Fattah urge Rishi Sunak to press Egypt for proof of life, as they wait desperately for any scraps of news
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As Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella spend their 1st weekend together in 6 years, his sister speaks of the strength of their relationship: "Whatever devils there are, they know they love each other." (And never mind that the flat is a tip!)
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“In almost any sphere of abuse you can think of,” says Richard Ratcliffe .. “whether that’s domestic abuse or sexual abuse or even some annoying neighbour trying to move a fence, keeping quiet is never in your interests, but the interests of the abuser.”
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Oxfam has calculated that, during coronavirus, just 10 men in the world have increased their wealth enough to pay for vaccines for the entire planet AND to reverse the poverty caused by the pandemic. Describing the situation as "shameful," it calls for fair taxation
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the plight of
@freemorad
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Morad Tahbaz is a wildlife conservationist trying to track endangered cheetahs in Iran when he was arrested. He's on hunger strike, his family says, after he was promised he'd be released as part of the deal that brought Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori home
Day 4 - Still on HUNGER-STRIKE . Save Morad Tahbaz before it is too late. He is weak & tired.
@UNHumanRights
@POTUS
@USEnvoyIran
@StateSPEHA
@SecBlinken
@dandeluce
@jrezaian
@ICHRI
@XiyueWang9
@UANI
@FreeMorad1
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@lilika49
@IranWireEnglish
@carolinehawley
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This morning at 8am Tehran time, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was taken to court from her parents' home - to face new charges. Last week, Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened she'd go back to jail. Richard Ratcliffe says she's traumatised.
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"Forgotten," "abandoned" and growing increasingly desperate. Former British Council teachers in Afghanistan - employed to promote British values - spoke to
@OrsiSzoboszlay
and I from hiding. Some have had to move several times to escape the Taliban.
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Richard Ratcliffe says he's keeping fingers crossed for his family and for ALL the dual nationals caught up in Iran's hostage diplomacy
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18 months after he'd been put back in jail after thinking he'd been released as part of the deal that brought Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home, Morad Tahbaz and his wife, Vida (who had a travel ban imposed on her) are on a plane out of Iran.
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British-Iranian-American environmentalist turns 66 today in a Tehran jail.
@trussliz
calls on Iran to end it's "cruel" treatment of him and allow him proper medical treatment
Happy Birthday
#moradtahbaz
- 4th in prison
#anyhopefornature
#freeiranianconservationists
@Rob_Malley
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As Nazanin and her family prepare for a SIXTH Christmas apart, a new song to cheer them up and keep them in the public eye. "Naz Don't Cry" is a reworking of "Man Don't Cry" released in 1991 for John McCarthy then held hostage in Beirut
Honoured to support
@FreeNazanin
#FreeNazanin
💙
Download ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Only 99p, all proceeds to
@REDRESSTrust
Thank you x
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Former ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, tells me Britain under Boris Johnson was diminished on the world stage. "We are now a country which unilaterally rips up international agreements." Relations with EU "largely destroyed." Rwanda policy. "His word was not his bond."
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The first British military evacuation flight from Sudan has landed at Larnaca old airport. We’re told there are 39 people on board.
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert is free after what sounds like a horrendous ordeal. Richard Ratcliffe says he and Nazanin are really happy for her - that one more family now "can begin to heal."
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A desperate appeal, after Israel's warning to 1.1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza to flee. "We don't have the means to evacuate the sick and wounded people in our hospitals. Or the elderly and disabled."
🚨Urgent appeal to humanity
@PalestineRCS
calls on the world leaders and the international community to intervene immediately to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding right now.
Please share widely 👇
#Gaza_under_attack
#IHL
#HumanitarianCrisis
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So young and full of life .. and imagine that her family were not even able to bury her
This young girl has been killed by
#Iran
’s security forces, days before her 17 birthday. The authorities abducted her body and buried her in a remote village because they were worried about her funeral turning into another protest. Her name was
#NikaShakarami
#MahsaAmini
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Two weeks ago today, Anoosheh Ashoori was on a plane home with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after the UK paid Iran a long overdue debt. Here's his story:
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"It's like torture," says Morad's sister of the awful family rollercoaster of the past few days. They'd been told he was part of the deal that brought Anoosheh Ashoori and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home. But he's now back in his prison cell.
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#thislittlegirlisme
Intrigued by the world. She wanted to be a doctor, but couldn't stand the sight of blood. Ended up seeing a bit too much of that as a journalist in the Middle East. I'd whisper in her ear: You can be stronger than you think. I wonder if she would listen?
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Interesting. Iranian ambassador says UK/Iran are "close" to resolving dispute over £400 million debt - exploring how to transfer the money. "I don't see any sign that the UK govt is not serious." Non-payment, it's clear, means non-release of British nationals in Tehran
"We don't want to be aggressors but we know, all of us, we are good defenders..the US has tried a lot of wars in the region and we see the result..war is not the solution "
#Iran
Ambassador to UK Mohsen Baharvand to
@BBCWorld
@bbcworldservice
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looking good. i'm quite sure i wouldn't after 3 weeks without food. the strength of this man!
So nice to see Richard Ratcliffe today in West Hampstead. He’s in good spirits despite losing 12kgs!
He has another medical check up tomorrow. He told me Nazanin is relieved he’s eating again 🙏🏾
He’s eternally grateful for all the support he’s had from all of you.
#freenazanin
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And you can see Rouaa's journey to the UK on
#BBCNewsTen
tonight, filmed by the brilliant
@DeeMcIlveen
. Produced by the brilliant
@cswift2
BBC's
@carolinehawley
has been following the life of 9 yr old Rouaa, a Syrian refugee who is the same age as
#Syria
’s war - a conflict that’s created the world’s largest refugee crisis. Only a tiny fraction of refugees get resettled. Rouaa & her family defied the odds.
@BBCPM
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Tomorrow marks 2000 days since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran. A letter to the Prime Minister will be delivered from at least 175 parliamentarians, urging the govt to recognise her and Anoosheh Ashoori as hostages, and address the long-standing UK debt to Iran
EVENT: giant snakes-and-ladders board to show ups and downs in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case
**Thur 23 Sept, 11am in Parliament Sq, London**
#FreeNazanin
#FreeAnoosheh
#Iran
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Medical charity MSF calls UK's Rwanda policy "a dark chapter in global refugee rights." Says it's concerned that survivors of torture and children who have been wrongly age-assessed as adults could be among those expelled. Worries about their mental and physical health
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That's Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori and others not in the public eye ..
For 4 years the Iranian government has held Morad Tahbaz - a UK and US citizen - in Evin Prison. Morad is a father, an environmentalist, and a cancer victim. Iran should release him, the Namazis, Emad Shargi, and Morad's fellow UK citizens immediately.
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He's now ended his hunger strike at the request of his family - who were worried for his health - but he's still in Evin jail, which Anoosheh Ashoori has described as "hell"
I spoke to Roxanne Tahbaz today whose father used to live in my constituency. He’s in prison in Iran on hunger strike and her mother is on a travel ban. Here’s their lovely family in happier times. Please write to your MP about bringing Morad Tahbaz back to the UK.
#freemorad
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Barry Rosen was held hostage in Iran for 444 days in 1979, and it's coloured the rest of his life. Now he does all he can to help bring current hostages home - including, later this week, beginning a hunger strike in their support ..
I am starting a hunger strike this week in Vienna, 41 years after my release, to demand the release of all hostages being held by
#Iran
. They are human beings, not bargaining chips. Their freedom should come before we make any deals with an untrustworthy regime.
#FreeTheHostages
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Bubbles in the park a very small consolation - what Gabriella had really been hoping for today was clemency for her mother. No news today from the prosecutor's office for Nazanin and her family
While it has been an exhausting day in the doorway, particularly for Nazanin, our thanks and love to all those who have sent messages of hope and care.
#freenazanin
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The scene outside the BBC in central London right now
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