PM makes personal appeal to Iran over jailed British charity worker
Theresa May has made a personal appeal to the Iranian president to resolve the case of a British charity worker who has been detained for over three months.
The prime minister "raised concerns" over the situation of British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in a telephone call with Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested as she tried to leave Iran following a family holiday with her two-year-old daughter in April and has since been accused of plotting to topple the Iranian regime.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe said she had suffered dangerous weight loss and is now virtually unable to walk as a result of her imprisonment on "trumped up" charges.
May urged president Rohani to resolve the case in the interests of smooth relations in her personal intervention, Downing Street said.
During the phone call, May and Rouhani also agreed to work on forming closer ties following the landmark nuclear agreement last year.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is being prosecuted in Tehran's Revolutionary Court.
Her daughter Gabriella had her passport confiscated when her mother was arrested and is being looked after in Iran by her grandparents, who speak little English.
The government has previously raised the case of pensioner Kamal Foroughi, 76, also a dual Iranian-British citizen, who was jailed in Iran on accusations of spying.