The ex-Foreign Secretary said they failed to meet international law obligations
Dual British-Iranian national Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained since 2016
She denies charges by officials of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government
Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the UK is beginning to look weak and is being pushed around over its failure to protect Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
The British-Iranian dual national has been detained in Iran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.
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Iranian officials claim the 42-year-old charity administrator, who worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, had been training people to spread propaganda against the country while running a BBC Persian online journalism course. She denies the allegations.
British citizens who are wrongfully arrested and tortured overseas will have no legal right to consular assistance or protection from the state, the Foreign Office has announced.
In a letter to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe s lawyers, the Government said it was under no legal obligation to provide assistance to citizens who were falsely accused of a crime while travelling with a British passport.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, a charity worker with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at Tehran airport as she was returning home to London with her then 22-month-old daughter, Gabriella, following a family visit in 2016.
The British-Iranian dual national was jailed for five years on allegations that she plotted to overthrow the Iranian government.