Free Nazanin: Foreign Office denies legal duty in letter | Hampstead Highgate Express

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when she was allowed to leave prison on furlough in Spring 2020.
- Credit: Free Nazanin
Lawyers for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have been told by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) that the British government "is not a statutory safeguarding body, nor does it have a legal duty of care to British nationals overseas". 
Senior MPs, including former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, have criticised the FCDO's assertion.
Writing to Nazanin's lawyers, Sarah Broughton, the FCDO's head of consular services, said there was no legal right to protection and that all cases, including Nazanin's, were treated on a discretionary basis. 

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