{"id":39750,"date":"2019-06-15T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39750"},"modified":"2019-06-15T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:22:59","slug":"uk-iranian-begins-fresh-hunger-strike-in-tehran-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39750","title":{"rendered":"UK-Iranian begins fresh hunger strike in Tehran jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1511131\/middle-east\" readability=\"53\">\n<p>\nLONDON: A British-Iranian mother being held in a Tehran prison on sedition charges has begun another hunger strike in protest at her detention, her husband said Saturday.<br \/>Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, is refusing food as she marks her daughter\u2019s fifth birthday, Richard Ratcliffe said in a statement.<br \/>His wife was arrested in April 2016 as she was leaving Iran after taking their infant daughter to visit her family. She was sentenced to five years for allegedly trying to topple the Iranian government.<br \/>\u201cShe had informed the judiciary that she has begun a new hunger strike (she will drink water) \u2014 to protest at her continuing unfair imprisonment,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cThis is something she had been threatening for a while. Nazanin had vowed that if we passed Gabriella\u2019s fifth birthday with her still inside, then she would do something \u2014 to mark to both governments \u2014 that enough is enough. This really has gone on too long.\u201d<br \/>A project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the media group\u2019s philanthropic arm, she denies all charges.<br \/>She previously went on hunger strike in January.<br \/>\u201cHer demand from the strike, she said, is for unconditional release. She has long been eligible for it,\u201d said Ratcliffe.<br \/>\u201cI do not know the response from the Iranian authorities.\u201d<br \/>He urged the Iranian authorities to release her immediately, for the British embassy to be allowed to check on her health, and, if she is not released within the coming weeks, for him to be granted a visa to visit her.<br \/>Last month, London changed its travel advice for British-Iranian dual nationals, warning them against all travel to Iran, citing Zaghari-Ratcliffe\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A British-Iranian mother being held in a Tehran prison on sedition charges has begun another hunger strike in protest at her detention, her husband said Saturday.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, is refusing food as she marks her daughter\u2019s fifth birthday, Richard Ratcliffe said in a statement.His wife was arrested in April 2016 as she was leaving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}