The Iranian-British Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe called on Monday March 21 for the release of all those who are "unjustly detained" in Iran, believing that she should not have spent six years in prison there until her death. released last week.
"The sense of freedom will never be complete until all of us who are unjustly detained in Iran are reunited with our families," Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe told a news conference, citing the trinational Iranian-British-American Morad Tahbaz.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, was released last Wednesday along with Anoosheh Ashoori, another 67-year-old Iranian-British.
"I shouldn't have spent six years in prison"
Project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic branch of the news agency of the same name, she was arrested in 2016 in Tehran, where she came to visit her family.
She had been accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamic Republic, which she vehemently denies, and sentenced to five years in prison.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe thanked all those who enabled his release but criticized the fact that it took five heads of British diplomacy to secure his release.
"What just happened should have happened six years ago," she said.
"I shouldn't have spent six years in prison."
In parallel with the releases last week, London announced that it had settled an old debt of 394 million pounds (470 million euros) with Tehran, without establishing a link between the two cases.
With AFP
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