Nazanin's husband: I'll stay on hunger strike until ministers do more

NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband today vowed to stay on hunger strike in Whitehall until the Government responds to his demands to do more to free his wife.

- Rachael Burford

Richard Ratcliffe is calling on authorities to secure the release of the British-Iranian aid worker, who is serving the second of two prison sentences in Iran. He began his second hunger strike in two years yesterday and is sleeping in a tent outside the Foreign Office.

Mr Ratcliffe, pictured right, said police attempted to move him from his camp at 3.45am today but he is refusing to leave until the Government acknowledges his requests.

“I’m staying until the Government responds,” he told the Standard.

“I’m hoping that response is to engage with the demands and not to tell the police to move me on.”