Several years into her imprisonment in Tehran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe penned a letter to her young daughter Gabriella. “There is sometimes little I know about you… and even less about motherhood,” she wrote. Some 2,700 miles away in London, a young Gabriella was learning to read books and attending birthday parties without her mother by her side.
Channel 4’s Nazanin paints a portrait of a family ripped apart by a diplomatic dispute they are powerless to influence. In April 2016, Nazanin’s life was changed beyond imagining when she was arrested and jailed on bogus spying charges as Iran sought the payment of £400m of an historic unpaid debt. Like others who have suffered the same fate, she became a bargaining chip in a wider political struggle.
