Daughter of British Iranian detained in Iran calls on UK government to secure his release

Daughter of British Iranian detained in Iran calls on UK government to secure his release
The daughter of Morad Tahbaz, a UK national detained in Iran, has called on the UK foreign secretary to bring her father home after the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashouri.
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13 April, 2022
Roxanne Tahbaz, daughter of Morad Tahbaz, says her father has been abandoned[Getty]

The daughter of an American-British-Iraniannational protestedon Wednesday outside the UK'sForeign, Commonwealth and Development Officefor her father's release.

Roxanne Tahbaz, daughter of ,called on Foreign Secretary to "bring my dad home",in an attempt to spur the British government into taking action.

She has previously accused the UK of betraying the detainee.

This came four weeks after the , who were able to leave Iran after the UK repaida owed for undelivered tanks that dated back to the 1970s.

"We really hope that Liz Truss has heard our pleas, all we want is for her to bring our father home... [he] has been abandoned... it's a devastating betrayal and it must be put right," Roxanne said, according to rights group Amnesty International.

Roxanne added that she was "truly" happy for bothZaghari-Ratcliffe andAshoori's release, but emphasised that detainees remaining in Iran must also be brought home.

Ashoori has saidhe is unable to "fully savour my freedom while Morad... and others are languishing behind bars after enduring the same travesty of justice" he went through, according to a.

OnWednesday the global human rights launched a "No-One Left Behind" campaign asking the government to increase itsefforts to secure "the release of all British nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran".

“The Government’s job is only half-done - Nazanin and Anoosheh are home, but Morad isn’t and neither is Mehran Raoof,"Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s CEO, said.

“We’ve launched our... campaign... to keep Morad and Mehran in the public eye... it shouldn’t need a superhuman effort from the families to jolt the Government into taking action on behalf of British nationals who are arbitrarily jailed,” Deshmukh added.

last March, which he beganafter being excluded from therelease deal that saw Zaghari-Ratcliffe andAshoorireturnto the UK.