Our loved ones are imprisoned abroad. Why won’t the UK government help? | Gurpreet Singh Johal and Sanaa Seif

Our brothers have spent another Christmas unjustly detained overseas – abandoned by those who should protect them

In March, after six years in captivity in Iran, the British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe flew home to be reunited with her family. The photographs of her hugging her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Gabriella, moved me to tears. I have long shared their anger at the UK government’s failure to protect its citizens imprisoned overseas. But, in that moment, I was able to share their joy, too.

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