Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, is a British-Iranian dual citizen who has been detained in Iran since April 2016 over spying charges. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Imam Khomeini Airport in Iran with her then 22-month-old daughter Gabriella as they were about to board a flight returning to the UK.
She was in the country to visit her parents and celebrate the country’s new year.
The mother was accused of plotting to topple the Government in Tehran, although no official charges have been made public.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said she was leading a “foreign-linked hostile network” when she visited.
Before her arrest, she lived in London with her husband, an accountant Richard Ratcliffe.
She worked as a project manager for the charity Thomson Reuters Foundation and was previously employed by BBC Media Action, an international development charity.
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