Richard Ratcliffe, husband of the British-Iranian dual nationalist Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was held in Iran, went on a hunger strike in London to protest.
Although Iran is primarily responsible for his wife’s situation, “Britain is failing us,” wrote Richard Ratcliffe, who started his strike at the British Foreign Office in Westminster on Sunday, in a statement.
Two years ago he went on a hunger strike for about two weeks.
► The British government recently again called for an end to the prosecution and the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
In the meantime, Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced again in Iran: to one year in prison for propaganda against the Iranian regime. Her husband asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make the case a top priority.
The case has been causing a dispute between Tehran and London for years.
The new conviction relates to alleged participation in a demonstration twelve years ago and an interview she gave to the BBC’s Persian-language edition. She has already served a five-year prison sentence for similar allegations and was released in March, but was not allowed to leave the country.
The project manager of the Thomson Reuters Foundation was arrested in 2016 after visiting her parents in southern Iran. Among other things, she was accused of espionage. She is said to have tried with a foreign network to overthrow the regime in Iran, so the allegation. Although she vehemently denied all charges against her, she was convicted by a revolutionary court.