Downing Street confirms it is considering idea to help secure release of British-Iranian woman from jailThe government could consider giving Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection to help secure her release from jail in Iran, Downing Street has confirmed after Boris Johnson discussed the idea with the detained woman’s husband. “I think that the foreign secretary has obviously spoken with her husband and that is one of the options being looked at,” Theresa May’s spokesman told reporters. Giving diplomatic protection is not the same as diplomatic immunity, under which diplomatic and consular staff cannot be prosecuted. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, was arrested after travelling to Iran on holiday to show her then-infant daughter to her parents, who live there. “The Foreign Office always emphasises that Nazanin is a dual national,” Ratcliffe told Johnson.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 09:46 UTC