Richard Radcliffe, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe husband ended his hunger strike after 21 days camped outside the Foreign Office without food in protest at British government inaction on the case.
According
to Boris Johnson walked past the hunger-striking husband of Nazanin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe and ignored him, it has been claimed.
On Tuesday
in a parliamentary debate about the British-Iranian dual national's case, her
local MP Tulip Siddiq read out a statement from her husband.
In the
statement he said: "Today marks day 2,054 of Nazanin's detention. We are
approaching our sixth Christmas apart. A little girl has been without her
mother for five and a half years now. It did not have to be like this.
"The
Prime Minister did not visit me on hunger strike, though he did pass me one day
without coming over. His Government continues to put British citizens in harm's
way, Nazanin's story shames this country."
Ms Siddiq,
who has taken up the case, said she was "increasingly frustrated"
with the government's approach. She said ministers acknowledged that they owed
Iran £400 million and that there was "no question about the fact that the
debt is linked to Nazanin's case".
She told
MPs: "Richard Radcliffe went on hunger strike because he felt he had no
other option, and he went on hunger strike for three weeks outside the Foreign
Office in order to capture the attention of the upper echelons of government.
"He
did it because he thinks the upper echelons of government are not helping with
his wife's plight. I'm very disappointed to say that in the three weeks that
Richard was outside the Foreign Office starving himself the prime minister of
our country did not come to visit him."
The Labour
MP for Hampstead and Kilburn also blasted the prime minister for having
"made an enormous blunder while he was giving evidence to
parliament".
While
foreign secretary Mr Johnson claimed Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was teaching
journalism while in the country - she says she was in fact visiting family.
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