Summary
The husband of a British-Iranian citizen jailed in Iran delivered a petition for his spouse to the country's embassy to Britain Wednesday, as Iran's deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi visited London.
Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year sentence in Tehran for alleged sedition, was forced to leave the papers on its doorstep, he told AFP.
Iranian authorities accuse Zaghari-Ratcliffe of links to mass protests in 2009, which she denies, and sentenced her to five years in jail for sedition.
The documents, delivered to coincide with Araghchi's visit, featured an Amnesty-organized petition signed by over 100,000 people calling for the release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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