\nLONDON: The UK’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt summoned Iran’s ambassador in London over the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the BBC reported on Monday.<\/p>\n
\nZaghari-Ratcliffe,\u00a0who has been jailed in Tehran, is going on hunger strike in protest at her treatment, her employer and her husband said.<\/p>\n
\nZaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit.<\/p>\n
\nShe was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, a charge denied by her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News.<\/p>\n
\n“Nazanin called me this morning to confirm from Evin prison that she has started this hunger strike this morning. It is initially a three-day hunger strike,” her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said.<\/p>\n
\nHe said Nazanin was taking the action to press demands for access to specialist doctors to address health concerns and to be allowed such treatment as they prescribed.<\/p>\n
\nA spokesman for Iran’s judiciary declined to comment, while Britain’s foreign office declined to comment on the ambassador’s summoning.<\/p>\n
\nIran has said that the trial and the verdict are in the hands of the judiciary.<\/p>\n
\nMonique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said it was “extremely shocking to see our colleague … going on hunger strike to protest at her inhumane treatment.”<\/p>\n
\nBritain has advised British-Iranian dual nationals against all but essential travel to Iran, tightening its existing travel advice and warning it has only limited powers to support them if detained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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