🔴Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being allowed to leave Iran, her lawyer has told the Reuters news agency
The British-Iranian aid worker is currently heading to the airport along with Anousheh Ashouri, another British-Iranian national, and will be allowed to leave Iran telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
🔴This morning, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss both indicated progress was being made in talks to free the pair.
Liz Truss said that Britain has a "team in Tehran" and the government are working “very hard” to secure release of "unfairly detained" nationals telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
💬Penny Madden, Richard Ratcliffe's lawyer, said hopes "remain very high" about his wife's safe return to Britain.
"We still don't know, we still haven't had that confirmation, so there is enormous anxiety for Richard, for Gabriella, for the family, for Nazanin"
"Until she comes home on that flight, nobody will be able to relax.
"So still very, very optimistic, we don't know what the delay is, we're very, very scared but remain ever-optimistic" telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
Penny Madden said she had spoken to Mr Ratcliffe - who is still in the UK - on Wednesday morning.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016.
She was later convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. Her family and employer deny the charge as baseless telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
💬Richard Ratcliffe's sister has said it felt like they were on the "home run" following the news that she had been taken to the airport.
🔴Iranian state media confirmed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, saying she has been "handed over to the British government" after serving her "full sentence" telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
🚨A source close to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family have told Reuters that both she and Anousheh Ashouri have left Iran telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Liz Truss has said the UK has settled an outstanding £400 million debt with Iran in a way which complies with UK and international sanctions telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard Ratcliffe has said he was "deeply grateful" for her release and that he and their daughter Gabriella were "looking forward to a new life" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
➡️Richard Ratcliffe has told the media that his daughter Gabriella has been "singing and playing the piano all morning" to celebrate the return of her mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 NEW: Husband Richard says family 'looking forward to a new life'
📸 Pictured: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe touches down in Oman where she will board a flight to the UK
📺 Watch: Earlier BBC newsreader Joanna Gosling was overwhelmed with emotion as news broke of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
🔴 A few MPs clapped in the House of Commons after Tulip Siddiq spoke about the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
She said: "After six years I can talk about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the chamber and not beg for her release. So thank you" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️ Boris Johnson has said it is "fantastic news" that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been freed by the Iranians.
He said: "It is fantastic that she will be able to come back, see her family, see her daughter Gabriella" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
📹 Watch: Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has said the family are looking forward to "a new life" after the British-Iranian aid worker was released from custody 👇
🗣️ "We can all rejoice that there is some good news from Iran today. We can only hope that the return of Nazanin to her family will herald the beginning of improved relationships with that great country," writes Terry Waite telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
🔵 Jeremy Hunt has said he felt "quite choked up" about the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, admitting it had taken "too long" to resolve.
David Cameron also said her release was "a piece of good news that we’ve all been waiting to hear" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️ The children of Anoosheh Ashoori, who is on the same flight back to the UK as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, have said their first conversation with their father will be an "extraordinary" moment when "our suffering is going to end"
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🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
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Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.