Vigil for UK mother jailed in Iran
A British-iranian woman jailed in Tehran for allegedly plotting to topple the government has told how she dreams of watching her husband and their two-year-old daughter playing.
Ahead of the first anniversary of her detention, Nazanin Zaghari-ratcliffe described her wish to see the pair dancing to Michael Jackson in “the middle of our sitting room”.
The 38-year-old was arrested at Tehran Airport on 3 April while visiting family in Iran with daughter Gabriella.
She was imprisoned for five years in September and lost an appeal against her sentence in January but maintains her innocence.
Her husband Richard said it had been a “long year of separation, a year of our lives interrupted”.
Yesterday family and friends gathered close to Mrs Zaghari-ratcliffe’s home in Hampstead, London.
Supporters tied yellow ribbons to a tree in the park along with wishes from inmates at Evin prison in Iran. Mrs Zaghari-ratcliffe’s wish reads: “My fondest dream has always been to arrive at our home, you ask me if I want to have a cup of tea, then make me one. How I wish I could watch you both dance in the middle of our sitting room to the Michael Jackson music – like when Gabriella was only tiny.”