Altogether she spent 130 days in solitary confinement in different prisons. This section is under control of the Revolutionary Guards. In mid June 2016 she was transferred to section 2-A of Evin Prison in Tehran.

On 6 September the judge announced that she was sentenced to five years in prison on unspecified “security charges”.Ĭ) Nazanin was initially in Kerman prison, nearly 1000 km from Tehran. On 14 August 2016 the trial against her took place before Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. On 15 June a unit of the Revolutionary Guards released a statement saying that she “participated in devising and carrying out media and cyber projects aimed at the soft overthrow of the government”. She was interrogated several times, but was not given access to a lawyer. She had during this time very limited contact with her daughter and parents and no contact with her husband. Gabriella’s British passport was confiscated.Īfter her arrest Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was held in solitary confinement for 45 days. Nazanin was allowed to leave her daughter in the care of her parents and was then taken by the officials. On 3 April 2016 when Nazanin went to Tehran’s Iman Khomeini Airport with Gabriella, because they wanted to fly back to London, she was arrested by officials who were likely part of the Revolutionary Guards. In March 2016 Nazanin was on holiday visiting her family for Nowruz (Iranian New Year) together with her daughter Gabriella. Richard and Gabriella are both British citizens.ī) Nazanin’s parents live in Tehran.

They have a daughter Gabriella who turned three on 11 June 2017. She is a British-Iranian dual national and worked as project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a charitable arm of the news agency Thomson Reuters. Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeĪ) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was born on 26 December 1978. In this blog post I want to introduce you to the five women who wrote the poetry: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, Narges Mohammadi, Nasim Bagheri and Mahvash Sabet Shariari and I want to share their stories with you. In the previous post I shared with you poems which were written behind bars, in the Women’s Ward of Iran’s Evin Prison.

Mahvash sabet poems