Jailed aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is “at the end of her tether” after two years in captivity in Iran, her husband said today.
Speaking on the second anniversary of her detention, Richard Ratcliffe said it never occurred to him that he would still be fighting for her release, as he called for Theresa May to intervene.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 39, is serving a five-year prison sentence in Tehran over allegations, which she denies, of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.
She was visiting family with her daughter Gabriella, now four, when they were detained at Tehran airport on April 3, 2016.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard RatcliffePAMr Ratcliffe, 43, from Hampstead, told the BBC: “She really feels very low, very powerless and frustrated. She’s very fragile.
"She talks about not being able to go on much longer. She talks in terms of feeling like the Government is not doing anything.”
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We continue to approach her case in a way that we judge is most likely to secure the outcome we all want.”
Campaigners for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release are tonight holding a comedy event, One Night Of Freedom, at Conway Hall in Holborn, hosted by Shappi Khorsandi and featuring Al Murray, Sara Pascoe and Mark Steel.
Read the Standard's interview with organiser Shappi Khorsandi here