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Foreign Office complacent over Britons held overseas, says Richard Ratcliffe

Department’s response to MPs’ critical report disappoints husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has accused the Foreign Office of complacency after it rejected a call by MPs to overhaul the way it goes about trying to secure the release of British nationals overseas.

A report by the foreign affairs select committee published in April, after members took evidence from Zaghari-Ratcliffe and the families of other political prisoners, condemned the Foreign Office’s attitude as secretive, inconsistent and built on the false assumption that quiet diplomacy works.

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