Hunt’s bid to free Brit jailed in Iran

FOREIGN Secretary Jeremy Hunt is considering granting diplomatic protection to free a British charity worker jailed in Iran.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, pictured, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016, accused of spying. She denies the allegations, insisting she was on holiday visiting family with her baby daughter.

Mr Hunt said he had been going over the case in ‘enormous detail’ and considering her husband Richard Ratcliffe’s request to grant her diplomatic protection – a mechanism under international law where a state can help one of its nationals whose rights have been breached in another country. Mr Hunt said he had not ‘come to a final decision’.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 39, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is facing a further hearing over an unspecified security charge.