
A citizen’s rights
Richard Ratcliffe’s extraordinary campaign – culminating this week with the release of his wife Nazanin – has changed the way we relate to power in Britain
After her six-year ordeal, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has finally been freed and is back in the UK.
Over the last three years, we’ve followed her husband Richard’s fight to free her, and investigated how machinations and missteps over an unpaid debt compounded her plight.
In 2020 we investigated the dark prison in the heart of Tehran – where Nazanin was detained.
Tortoise editor Ceri Thomas investigates the mystery of a decades-old tank debt with Iran, and how it may have ended up costing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom.