How her nightmare unfolded

March 17, 2016 Nazanin travels to Iran to visit her family for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with daughter Gabriella. April 3, 2016 As they prepare to board a flight back to the UK at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport, she is arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Gabriella’s passport is confiscated. June 16, 2016 Press TV, the state-owned Iranian news

channel, claims Nazanin was involved in “plans for regime change in Iran”, which she denies. August 9, 2016 Theresa May raises concerns with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. September 6, 2016 After 150 days in detention, Nazanin is sentenced to five years in prison on charges that “remain secret”. April 2017 Iran’s supreme court upholds the sentence, ending her legal options to overturn it. November 1, 2017 Boris Johnson blunders in a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting, saying: “She was simply teaching people journalism.” November 5, 2017 Nazanin is summoned to court in Tehran where the Foreign Secretary’s comments are used against her, as proof she was involved in “propaganda”. She could face another five years in jail. November 13, 2017 The PM’s spokesman slaps down Mr Johnson by telling journalists Government policy is Nazanin was on holiday when arrested. November 15, 2017 Her husband Richard Ratcliffe meets Mr Johnson, describes the meeting as “constructive” and reveals the Foreign Secretary is “keen” for him to accompany him to Iran.