approach they wanted to take, and thenit approach they wanted to take, and then it became a global story. i don t think nazanin fully realised until perhaps today how big the story this was here in the uk and around the world. story this was here in the uk and around the world. exactly, because initiall i around the world. exactly, because initially i believe around the world. exactly, because initially i believe her around the world. exactly, because initially i believe her family - around the world. exactly, because initially i believe her family had i initially i believe herfamily had the idea to keep this very quiet but her husband what s very adamant from the very beginning to make this public, to build awareness about this. i know you must have been working very closely with what the family wanted, their approach to how to deal with her detention, her incarceration. to deal with her detention, her incarceration. exactly, the advice from the fco incarceration. exactly, the
extraordinary scenes, images that the world has welcomed. nazanin zaghari ratcliffe released. also with the other dual national who was detained. nazanin worked at the thomas reuters foundation. nazanin worked at the thomas reuters foundation. i m joined now by antonio zappulla, ceo of the thomson reuters foundation, where nazanin worked. you have been advocating for nazanin s release. you must bejust so relieved. let s get your initial reaction to her return home. it is a treat reaction to her return home. it is a great day- reaction to her return home. it is a great day- the reaction to her return home. it is a great day. the past reaction to her return home. it is a great day. the past 48 reaction to her return home. it is a great day. the past 48 hours i reaction to her return home. it is a great day. the past 48 hours have | great day. the past 48 hours have been surreal. we had been there before. there have been moments throughout this very long six years where we felt th
richard all the time and we were in contact with nazanin since she went into house arrest. there were multiple lines of communication open and i have been messaging nazanin constantly since she was in house arrest. ., ., ., ~ constantly since she was in house arrest. ., ., ., ,, ., , arrest. you are talking about being her employer- arrest. you are talking about being her employer. nazanin s arrest. you are talking about being her employer. nazanin s work i arrest. you are talking about being her employer. nazanin s work with | her employer. nazanin s work with the thomson reuters foundation was used as a false pretext in the charges against her. she was accused of training journalists in iran. in fact she was not, she was visiting her family. fact she was not, she was visiting herfamily. but i wonder fact she was not, she was visiting her family. but i wonder how you and your colleagues, how the former ceo, for advocating her release all the time, how you felt about knowing that h
we have seen before obviously. there was no doubt in our minds that nazanin had no wrongdoing on her side simply because we don t operate in iran, we never operated in iran and we have no intention of operating in iran and she was not training journalists in iran. that was a subject that got the situation much more complicated. it was clear from our perspective that she was used as a political token and i guess that is why the frustrations from nazanin s perspective were so palpable because a lie told many times is still a lie. she was a project coordinator and became a project manager, we promoted her whilst she was away. she was working in our media development team. we train journalists around the world in more than 85 countries, but we have never tried a single journalist in iran.
wife who has been reunited with her husband and a mother who has been reunited with her daughter. in husband and a mother who has been reunited with her daughter.- reunited with her daughter. in terms of communications reunited with her daughter. in terms of communications with reunited with her daughter. in terms of communications with iran - of communications with iran specifically, given how long it took to get to this point, is it incredibly difficult to try to have any kind of communication with the iranian government beyond the governmental discussions that go on? our work was largely focused on putting pressure on the uk government to take action in nazanin s case and that is because engaging with a regime like the iranians regime is so difficult. we saw how they were willing to do whatever it took to keep nazanin in iran until they got what they wanted from the uk government and so it is difficult as a lawyer, we need to engage with the legal processes in iran because they