Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has described her five years of torture at the hands of the Iranian regime to independent investigators for the first time.During six hours of video consultation over three
In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family while held prisoner in Iran.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a victim of torture, suffers major depression and PTSD and requires urgent psychiatric treatment, according to a charity which commissioned a detailed medical assessment of her.
As Mrs Zaghari-Ratliffe prepares to return to court in Iran on Sunday, human rights group Redress has called on the Government to recognise her as a victim of torture, having sent the Foreign Secretary the 77-page report on the mother-of-one it commissioned from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT).
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, last week completed a five-year sentence in Tehran on spying charges levied by Iranian authorities, the last year of which was spent under house arrest due to the pandemic.