Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Tehran since 2016, holds his daughter Gabriella during a news conference in London, on October 11, 2019. The five-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran since 2016 has arrived back in Britain, her father said Friday, after making the "bittersweet" decision to bring her home. AFP
Last of the captured British hostages Terry Waite waves at his arrival in Lyneham, on November 19, 1991, following their release in Lebanon. Iran resorted to hostage-taking during the latter stages of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, when scores of foreign nationals, including British hostages John McCarthy and Terry Waite, were seized as part of Tehran’s campaign to end Western intervention in the conflict. AFP
A freed British hostage John McCarthy (L), 34, addresses the media on August 8, 1991 at the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus, after being released in Beirut after more than five years in captivity. McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986. At left, then British Ambassador to Syria, Andrew Flemming-Green. AFP
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari was executed this year for his role in the 2018 protests. EPA
Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish professor, who has been sentenced to death on spying charges, has been linked to the assassination of a number of high-ranking Iranian scientists said to be working on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
A handout picture released by the Free Nazanin campaign on March 17, 2020 shows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wearing an ankle tag as she poses for a photograph in West Tehran, Iran following her release from prison for two weeks. Free Nazanin campaign / AFP
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Tehran since 2016, holds his daughter Gabriella during a news conference in London, on October 11, 2019. The five-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran since 2016 has arrived back in Britain, her father said Friday, after making the "bittersweet" decision to bring her home. AFP
Last of the captured British hostages Terry Waite waves at his arrival in Lyneham, on November 19, 1991, following their release in Lebanon. Iran resorted to hostage-taking during the latter stages of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, when scores of foreign nationals, including British hostages John McCarthy and Terry Waite, were seized as part of Tehran’s campaign to end Western intervention in the conflict. AFP
A freed British hostage John McCarthy (L), 34, addresses the media on August 8, 1991 at the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus, after being released in Beirut after more than five years in captivity. McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986. At left, then British Ambassador to Syria, Andrew Flemming-Green. AFP
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari was executed this year for his role in the 2018 protests. EPA
Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish professor, who has been sentenced to death on spying charges, has been linked to the assassination of a number of high-ranking Iranian scientists said to be working on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
A handout picture released by the Free Nazanin campaign on March 17, 2020 shows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wearing an ankle tag as she poses for a photograph in West Tehran, Iran following her release from prison for two weeks. Free Nazanin campaign / AFP
Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Tehran since 2016, holds his daughter Gabriella during a news conference in London, on October 11, 2019. The five-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran since 2016 has arrived back in Britain, her father said Friday, after making the "bittersweet" decision to bring her home. AFP