Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband marks her 2,000 days in detention” – below is their description.
It is exactly 2,000 days since British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained in Tehran on trumped up charges of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.
Her incarceration since April 2016 is thought to be tied to a historic arms debt the British government owes to Iran for weapons ordered and paid for in the 1970s.
Today, Nazanin’s husband Richard and her seven-year-old daughter Gabriella marked the occasion in Parliament Square, with a giant game of snakes and ladders, symbolising the ups and many downs of her time in prison.
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