{"id":652618,"date":"2022-05-13T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1593124"},"modified":"2022-05-13T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:30:24","slug":"pm-does-not-apologise-after-nazanin-tells-him-she-lived-in-shadow-of-his-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/13\/pm-does-not-apologise-after-nazanin-tells-him-she-lived-in-shadow-of-his-words\/","title":{"rendered":"PM does not apologise after Nazanin tells him she lived in \u2018shadow of his words\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

Boris Johnson failed to apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she described the \u201cmassive impact\u201d his false claim had on her six-year detention in Iran, her husband said.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister was seemingly \u201cshocked\u201d after the British-Iranian dual national told him she had lived for years in the \u201cshadow of his words\u201d during their first meeting since her release.<\/p>\n

Zaghari-Ratcliffe and husband, Richard Ratcliffe, took their daughter, Gabriella, and constituency MP, Tulip Siddiq, to the discussions in Downing Street on Friday.<\/p>\n

Historic debt<\/h2>\n

<\/p>\n

Nazanin was freed in March along with fellow detainee Anoosheh Ashoori after the UK agreed to settle a historic \u00a3400 million debt dating to the 1970s.<\/p>\n

But Johnson had been accused of lengthening her ordeal when, as foreign secretary in 2017, he wrongly claimed she had been training journalists at the time of her arrest in 2016.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in Downing Street, Mr Ratcliffe said his wife challenged the Prime Minister on \u201cwhy did it take so long\u201d to secure her release.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Nazanin
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella arriving in Downing Street (Victoria Jones\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

She also told him the \u201cmassive impact\u201d his comments had on her, even saying the Iranian authorities brought Johnson\u2019s words up during interrogation shortly before her release.<\/p>\n

Asked if the Prime Minister apologised, Mr Ratcliffe responded:<\/p>\n

Not specifically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By The Canary<\/a><\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on The Canary<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson failed to apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she described the \u201cmassive impact\u201d his false claim had on her six-year detention in Iran, \u2026 <\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/div>\n

By The Canary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,25,12096,4,1395],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652619,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652618\/revisions\/652619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}