Call Out the Kidnapper States
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker arrested on holiday in Iran in 2016 and jailed for five years after being found guilty of undisclosed national security charges. At the end of her term, she was sentenced to another year in prison and given a one-year travel ban after being found guilty of ‘spreading propaganda against the regime'. The United Nations and British government have both rejected the charges against her. Here, her husband tells of the dangers in not acknowledging hostage diplomacy for what it is