Arrest at airport that ripped a family apart

APRIL 3, 2016 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is arrested at Imam Komeini airport in Tehran, as she prepares to fly home to London with her 22-month-old daughter Gabriella.

APRIL 11, 2016 Family are told she is in prison and later find out she is in solitary confinement.

MAY 12, 2016 Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is allowed out of solitary confinement for two hours to see her daughter and family for the first time. Her health is suffering.

JUNE 15, 2016 Iran claims she was involved in an attempt to topple the government.

JULY 12, 2016 Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard delivers a letter to No10. More than half a million have signed a petition calling for her release.

AUGUST 2, 2016 She makes her first court appearance before a ‘revolutionary court’ overseen by hardline judge Abolghasem Salavati.

SEPTEMBER 2016: Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is sentenced to five years in jail.

APRIL 2017 Having lost one appeal, she loses a final appeal in Iran’s supreme court to overturn her sentence.

NOVEMBER 1, 2017 Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tells a committee she was teaching journalism, publicly contradicting her defence. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is told she now faces new charges of ‘spreading propaganda’. DECEMBER 9, 2017 Mr Johnson arrives in

Iran for talks to negotiate her release – but fails.

AUGUST 23, 2018 A healthy-looking Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is reunited with her daughter during a temporary release.