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The silence from powerful British Muslim organisations on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and others is striking
The i 4 hrs ago Yasmin Alibhai-Brown © Provided by The i Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and their daughter Gabriella protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London (Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Boyers)
In 2016, British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was convicted of being a spy by an Iranian court. Until the Covid crisis, she was incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. She was then moved to her parents’ home with an ankle tag to complete her sentence. In April she was charged and convicted of “propaganda activities”. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe and his MP, Tulip Siddiq, have tirelessly fought for her release. Her daughter, now in the UK, is only six years old.
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Geoffrey Robertson is disillusioned. The world-famous barrister has, at 74, lost his belief in the effectiveness of international law. “I have not lost faith in the ICC [International Criminal Court]. I still think it’s necessary,” he tells me by phone from London, his voice more redolent of duty than of conviction. “But its catchment area is quite small.”
Robertson’s flamboyant persona is instantly recognisable: the bouffant hair, the plummy accent he sometimes says was acquired as a means to fit into snobbish London when he went to the bar there, and sometimes says was there before he left Australia. His mind may be a legal steel trap, but he has never been above burnishing his image. He is a showman, what men of a certain age like to call a “raconteur”. He gives lively public talks about his rise and rise in which he recounts well-oiled anecdotes, as he will doubtlessly do on his national tour this month to publicise his new book,
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