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Nazanin Zahgari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard (left) and Anoosheh Ashoori's son Aryan camp out by the Foreign Office building in Whitehall to demand release of loves ones from Iran
[Thienvan Nguyen]
by Bethany Rielly
BORIS JOHNSON should be ashamed of his government’s “unconscionable” inaction to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from detention in Iran, her husband has said.
Richard Ratcliffe is nearing two weeks on hunger strike outside the Foreign and Commonwealth and Development Office in his latest bid to demand that ministers do more to get his wife and other British citizens held in Iran back home.
Speaking to the Morning Star on his 10th day without food on Wednesday evening, Mr Ratcliffe said that the government had lost its moral compass in the handling of these cases.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
