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World Service,13 Nov 2021,10 mins

The fight for Nazanin’s freedom

The Documentary Podcast

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The husband of a British-Iranian charity worker held in Iran since 2016 has been on hunger strike again to push for her release. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held there on spying charges, which she denies. Ros Atkins looks at how her story is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK.

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