Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘wishes she’d never been released’

    Sky News: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wishes her temporary release from an Iranian jail had not happened, her husband has revealed.
    In an open letter to Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Richard Ratcliffe also says his wife – a British-Iranian dual citizen – has “numbness in her legs” after suffering two panic attacks following her return to Evin prison in Tehran.
    Mr Ratcliffe describes his wife’s return to jail as a “day of cruel disbelief”, and “back to black”. The prison guards “cried”, he says.
    Once back behind bars, Mr Ratcliffe and his wife had “one of our toughest conversations”.
    He writes: “She wished she had never been released. She said she felt like one of the radical Islamists’ captives – as though she had been paraded on the balcony then hidden back away.
    “After that call, Nazanin collapsed, the result of two panic attacks. She still has numbness in her legs.”
    The family feels “held together by sellotape”.
    Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 for “plotting to overthrow the Iranian regime” and was convicted last year, despite her denials.

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