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Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran back in 2016 and jailed for five years after authorities accused of her spying. The dual British-Iranian citizen had been travelling to Iran to visit the family for Nowruz, Iranian New Year with then two year old daughter Gabriella. Members of the Revolutionary Guards arrested her at Imam Khomeini Airport as they attempted to return.

An Iranian prosecutor said she was being held because she ran “a BBC Persian online journalism course which was aimed at recruiting and training people to spread propaganda against Iran”.

Her family, her employer The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the British Government have long denied the suggestion.

Concerns have long been raised over her health and welfare and she is believed to have been moved to hospital on Monday and her father claims she has been not allowed the opportunity to speak to or be visited by her family.

Supporters of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe said they were not sure how long she would on the ward.

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