Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe forced to sign false confession before being released
2 years, 7 months ago

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe forced to sign false confession before being released

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has revealed she was forced to sign a “false confession” at the airport before Iran would allow her to leave the country. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe said on the day of her release in March she was not allowed to see her parents but instead taken to the airport by the Revolutionary Guards and “made to sign the forced confession” in the presence of the British Government. open image in gallery Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe attend a press conference hosted by MP Tulip Siddiq following her release after six years imprisonment in Iran “So what is the point of making me sign a piece of paper which is incorrect? So I’m sure they will show that some day.” Earlier this month, her husband Richard Ratcliffe alluded to “mistakes made at the end” of the ordeal in Iran.

History of this topic

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of ‘constant worry’ for family in Iran
1 year, 2 months ago
Government rejected chances to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, say MPs
1 year, 9 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had to sign ‘false confession’ before being freed
2 years, 7 months ago
No apology from Boris Johnson, after hostage Nazanin tells him she ‘lived in the shadow of his words’
2 years, 7 months ago
A timeline of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s detention in Iran
2 years, 9 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘leaves Tehran’ after six years detained in Iran
2 years, 9 months ago
What did Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe do? A timeline of her arrest and sentence in Iran
2 years, 9 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Boris Johnson says negotiations with Iran to free Briton ‘going up to the wire’
2 years, 9 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘hopeful’ after British Council worker’s release from Iranian jail
2 years, 11 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed for another year in Iran
3 years, 8 months ago
Zaghari-Ratcliffe handed another prison sentence in Iran
3 years, 8 months ago
Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran sentence nears end, but release uncertain
3 years, 10 months ago
UK ‘beginning to look weak’ over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s detention in Iran, Jeremy Hunt warns
4 years ago
'Indefensible and unacceptable': Boris Johnson responds to new charges facing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
4 years, 4 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tranferred from prison to mental ward, supporters say
5 years, 5 months ago
Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells PM hopeful to apologise
5 years, 6 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends her two-week hunger strike in Iran
5 years, 6 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe given British diplomatic protection
5 years, 10 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian mother begins hunger strike
5 years, 11 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran’s state TV airs unseen video of arrest
6 years ago

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