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Family of Iranian prisoner trapped in Covid-19-riddled jail protest outside No10
Anoosheh Ashoori (top left) with his family
THE family of a British-Iranian man imprisoned in a Tehran jail riddled with Covid-19 held a protest today outside Downing Street to demand that the British government secure his release.
Iran temporarily released 85,000 inmates on Tuesday in an attempt to avoid mass outbreaks of the virus behind bars, but political prisoner Anoosheh Ashoori was not one of them.
The engineer, who lived with his family in London, was handed a 10-year sentence in 2019 after he was accused by Iran of spying for Israel, a charge he denies.
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