Foreign Affairs committee  You're getting me into political hot water here. It would have been on the televisions around the world, so you may be partly familiar with the story. In short, the then foreign secretary came before the U.K. foreign affairs committee in the House of Commons and gave evidence on

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It's a good question. My sense of it is that they're not actually asking for something new. We were very surprised by the prisoner swap offer. The prisoner swap offer was made in the States and was specifically to an American audience, invoking Nazanin's name, but the

Foreign Affairs committee  Not facts, but yes, there are obviously quite a few Baha'í women in the cells with Nazanin, some really inspiring and uplifting people. There were a number of Baha'í women released just recently. They were very lovely, calming influences. The ward is a bit more fractious now, sin

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes is the honest answer, and it varies over time. Broadly, in our experience, when someone is held in solitary, we have no contact for the first couple of months, which is the really live interrogation period. Thereafter, Nazanin was allowed to call me, which would typically be

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I'm honoured to present to this committee. I'm honoured to be amongst such fellow panellists. I think it's a really important initiative. I am here to bring these issues a bit closer to home, and to talk about the issue of foreign and dual nationals held prison