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image captionNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year sentence in Iran
The plight of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of spying, has focused attention on Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency who are held in the Islamic Republic s prisons.
Iran does not recognise dual nationality, and there are no exact figures on the number of such detainees given the sensitive nature of the information. Beside Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, some of the most prominent are:
Siamak and Baquer Namazi (Iran-US)
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image captionBaquer Namazi (left) and his son Siamak (right) have been detained since 2016 and 2015 respectively
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