British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained for six years by Iran, says she was forced to sign a false confession before her release in March. A British official was even said to have witnessed this. That reports the British broadcaster BBC.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian project manager for a charitable organization, was arrested in Iran in 2016 on suspicion of espionage. She was in the country with her then two-year-old daughter to visit her family. The woman has always denied the allegations. Zaghari-Ratcliffe ended up spending four years in an Iranian prison. She was allowed to leave the country in March last year.
But the 44-year-old woman told the BBC that on the day of her release, at the airport, the Iranians forced her to sign a false confession. A British official was said to have been present. According to her, the Iranians indicated that she would not board the plane without signing the confessions. They filmed the whole scene.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe suspects her false confessions will be used by the Iranian regime for propaganda purposes. By coming out with it, the woman now wants to make it clear that the confessions are false and therefore “of no value”. At the same time, she complains that the United Kingdom did not respond when Iran only wanted to release her on condition of the forced confession.
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