We’re doing our bit to helpIranianprisoners

Many readers of the Perthshire Advertiser will have been following the distressing case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman detained in Iran for nearly five years after a grossly unfair trial.

Nazanin is just one UK-Iranian dual-national targeted by the Iranian authorities in recent years.

Another is Anoosheh Ashoori, a 66-year-old former engineer subjected to a sham trial that involved “confessions” extracted via torture.

We’re working closely with both families to press the UK Government to do more to secure Nazanin and Anoosheh’s release.

The former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has recently criticised the government for not doing more to help them.

He’s right, and we’ll be pressing for