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5 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

They let this one off easily, maybe the Iranians are just a lot harsher

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-46318655

 

Uk didn't collect money for tanks and never deliver to the uae.

Who knows what a westernized woman might say in iran that would not fly at all. 

She could be a spy or just a women with a big mouth in a country that does not tolerate criticism that's owed a lot of money by thieving low life brits. 

It's not like the uk is ransoming kidnapped people from terrorists. They owe iran money. Pay them. Then demand all your people back. Or don't pay them and demand all your people back. 

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https://inews.co.uk/opinion/richard-ratcliffe-hunger-strike-uk-nazanin-zaghari-husband-1272658

Richard Ratcliffe: I’m on hunger strike because the UK is failing in it’s duty to bring Nazanin home

The Foreign Secretary must lead in a new direction by taking take strong, proactive, and effective action to protect British citizens

Richard is now camping outside the UK Foreign Office, demanding that they play their role in protecting their citizen (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Richard is now camping outside the UK Foreign Office, demanding that they play their role in protecting their citizen (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
October 28, 2021 10:40 am
 

Today, Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and his legal team will meet with the Foreign Secretary to discuss what the UK government needs to do to bring Nazanin home and put an end to Iran’s hostage-taking. The Foreign Secretary’s invitation came two days after Richard began his second hunger strike over Nazanin’s ongoing detention in Iran.

During his first hunger strike in 2019, Richard camped outside the Iranian embassy for two weeks, calling on Iran to release his wife. Two years later, he is now camping outside the UK Foreign Office, demanding that they play their role in protecting their citizen.

Nazanin has been separated from her husband and young daughter, Gabriella, since her unlawful arrest in April 2016. She remains trapped in Iran and could be returned to jail at any moment, following the recent announcement that her appeal had failed on her second spurious prosecution for “spreading propaganda against the regime”.

Later this week, a delegation of Iranian officials are invited to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Cop26, in Glasgow. It is a blinding paradox that representatives of the regime detaining Nazanin can come to the UK, while Nazanin, a British citizen, cannot.

Over the years, it has become increasingly clear that Nazanin and other foreign nationals, including US, EU, Canadian and Australian citizens, are being held hostage by Iran for diplomatic leverage over their home countries. They are political pawns; victims of Iran’s systematic hostage-diplomacy.

Nazanin and her family have been told by Iranian officials that her release is contingent on the UK paying an historic £400 million military debt to Iran. Although the UK agrees it is legally required to pay this debt, years have passed by with the debt unpaid. Meanwhile, Nazanin remains an innocent victim of a diplomatic trade-off.

In Parliament this week, former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who granted Nazanin diplomatic protection in 2019, asked the new Foreign Secretary: “When are we going to repay that debt, and what will she do to make sure that hostage taking never pays going forward?”

Newly-appointed Liz Truss is the UK’s fifth foreign secretary since Nazanin’s arrest. Her predecessors have largely failed to take a stand against Iran, focusing on cautiously managing the situation, rather than changing it. Ms Truss must not make the same mistake. The Foreign Secretary must lead in a new direction by taking strong, proactive, and effective action to protect British citizens.

First, the Foreign Secretary must ensure that the UK pays its debt to Iran, to bring Nazanin and other British citizens home. Second, she must work together with allied states to impose a cost on Iran’s hostage-taking and end this practice.

Last month, REDRESS and the Free Nazanin Campaign submitted a dossier of evidence to the Foreign Secretary, asking her to impose Magnitsky sanctions on 10 Iranian officials involved in Iran’s hostage-taking. Magnitsky sanctions target individual human rights abusers by restricting their travel and freezing their assets.

We are calling on the Foreign Secretary to lead in imposing these sanctions in concert with the US, the EU and Canada. Multilateral, targeted sanctions impose a real-world cost on perpetrators and can trigger the behavioural change necessary to end Iran’s decades-old practice. They can also provide justice for victims and their families, who continue to suffer at the hands of these perpetrators.

Earlier this year, the UK and 55 allied states supported a Canadian-led declaration denouncing the arbitrary detention of foreign nationals used as bargaining chips in state-to-state relations. The Foreign Secretary must turn these words into actions by harnessing this political will, including in the form of multilateral Magnitsky sanctions.

It may be suggested that assertive action by the UK could prompt Iran to retaliate against the hostages. Yet Nazanin’s treatment by Iran, and the severe suffering caused by indefinite waiting and agonising uncertainty, already amounts to torture. For hostages in Iran and their families, the situation cannot get much worse. Their nightmare cannot be allowed to drift on for years.

The UK government must change course and commit to its enduring promise of leaving “no stone unturned” to bring Nazanin home. If the Government continues to fail, it is Nazanin, Richard, Gabriella, and countless other innocent citizens who pay the price.

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As discussed before, the fact that the prisoner is a photo-genic, westernised yet quite exotic-looking woman who's a mother to a young child, and a wife to an obviously well-heeled white gentleman, is why this story is being captalised upon by her family. If she is an intelligence operative who got caught, you can bet that if it was a non-descript middle-aged white chap who'd found himself in the same situation, he'd be dead by now either through the old cyanide pill in the tooth trick or otherwise, and we'd never have known his name. This is female privilege. ?

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12 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

As discussed before, the fact that the prisoner is a photo-genic, westernised yet quite exotic-looking woman who's a mother to a young child, and a wife to an obviously well-heeled white gentleman, is why this story is being captalised upon by her family. If she is an intelligence operative who got caught, you can bet that if it was a non-descript middle-aged white chap who'd found himself in the same situation, he'd be dead by now either through the old cyanide pill in the tooth trick or otherwise, and we'd never have known his name. This is female privilege. ?

Live by the sword, die by the sword. 

 

But I still feel very sorry for Jagtar Singh Johal 

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2 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

But I still feel very sorry for Jagtar Singh Johal 

Yes, he's a civilian moved to highlight issues that were being ignored to a certain degree. Better than strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up passengers in a bus. But somehow the latter seems to grease the wheels towards getting preferential treatment for your people years down the line, lmao.

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7 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Yes, he's a civilian moved to highlight issues that were being ignored to a certain degree. Better than strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up passengers in a bus. But somehow the latter seems to grease the wheels towards getting preferential treatment for your people years down the line, lmao.

You're only of any political significance if you can disrupt the show enough to hurt the opponent's greater objectives. 

I remember the Canary Wharf IRA explosion. The paddies found the brits Achilles heel. All of a sudden after many decades, the brits suddenly wanted to sit down and negotiate peace. And this was way before Canary Wharf became what it is today.  

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59210389

The husband of Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said he is entering "uncharted territory" on the 16th day of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office.

Richard Ratcliffe, began protesting to put pressure on Boris Johnson to meet Iranian delegates at COP 26 to demand freedom for Britons detained in Iran.

He was joined on Monday by Claudia Winkleman and Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

Writer and presenter Mrs Coren-Mitchell said she wanted to support Mr Ratcliffe, who she said "might be the most amazing husband and father ever seen".

"They're a normal family that a terrible thing's happened to," she said.

"Nazanin is a totally innocent woman who needs to come home to her family. Their ongoing torment is a major failure of British diplomacy in its core responsibility - to protect its citizens.

"He doesn't have any power, and he wants the people with power to help him, but he is doing everything he can. I wanted to come as a friend and support him."

Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Richard Ratcliffe and Claudia Winkleman
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Mr Ratcliffe was joined by Victoria Coren-Mitchell and Claudia Winkleman

Mr Ratcliffe said he doesn't "have any confidence" in the government's plans to free his wife.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Hampstead, north London, won't be freed until £400m owed to Iran for failing to deliver tanks in the 1970s is paid.

"Nazanin is held over some debt that the British Government owes the Iranians," he said.

"She's not going to come home until it gets paid, so that needs to be sorted and they also need to be a lot tougher with Iran on using innocent people as hostages."

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46 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59210389

The husband of Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said he is entering "uncharted territory" on the 16th day of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office.

Richard Ratcliffe, began protesting to put pressure on Boris Johnson to meet Iranian delegates at COP 26 to demand freedom for Britons detained in Iran.

He was joined on Monday by Claudia Winkleman and Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

Writer and presenter Mrs Coren-Mitchell said she wanted to support Mr Ratcliffe, who she said "might be the most amazing husband and father ever seen".

"They're a normal family that a terrible thing's happened to," she said.

"Nazanin is a totally innocent woman who needs to come home to her family. Their ongoing torment is a major failure of British diplomacy in its core responsibility - to protect its citizens.

"He doesn't have any power, and he wants the people with power to help him, but he is doing everything he can. I wanted to come as a friend and support him."

Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Richard Ratcliffe and Claudia Winkleman
Image caption,
Mr Ratcliffe was joined by Victoria Coren-Mitchell and Claudia Winkleman

Mr Ratcliffe said he doesn't "have any confidence" in the government's plans to free his wife.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Hampstead, north London, won't be freed until £400m owed to Iran for failing to deliver tanks in the 1970s is paid.

"Nazanin is held over some debt that the British Government owes the Iranians," he said.

"She's not going to come home until it gets paid, so that needs to be sorted and they also need to be a lot tougher with Iran on using innocent people as hostages."

Do Hunger strikes work?

Are they effective? 

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Don't think it was successful for Bapu Surat Singh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surat_Singh_Khalsa

On 11 February 2015, Surat Singh Khalsa wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi[4] explaining the motive of his hunger strike. In his letter, Surat Singh Khalsa summed up his demands in two points

  1. Treat all Sikh prisoners –under trials and those sentenced in cases relating to the Sikh struggle- as political prisoners and
  2. Release all prisoners who have completed their full jail terms and are legitimately due for release, exactly in the same manner, as other prisoners are so released in various other parts of the country.

A number of Sikh Political Prisoners are languishing in jails despite having completed their sentences. Many of these prisoners are released on parole on yearly basis. These prisoners can be granted permanent parole or be released on bail as there are no pending charges against them. In addition, Surat Singh Khalsa is seeking release of senior citizens based on humanitarian grounds. There are at least 8 such prisoners who have been sentenced under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act for their involvement in a bank robbery case that took place in Ludhiana.[5] This law has already lapsed and has been deemed as controversial by human rights organizations, as well as the United Nations.[6]

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