Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37 at time of arrest

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an Iranian-British citizen who was arrested as a bargaining chip for a several million-pound debt that the UK allegedly owed Iran for a military arms deal. For six years she was held captive and denied medical attention and communication with her family. The Iranian Government has a history of arresting citizens of other countries and using them to bargain military arms deals and financial blackmail from western governments. 

I think solitary confinement works in the way they can mess your mind up in a way to break you.

A female guard would stand outside my cell and speak loudly on the phone to her own young child in an apparently deliberate attempt to exacerbate the pain of separation from my daughter.

There was no justification for it. I am cross at them. I am not scared. The amount of scars I got. I have been put through hell.

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Iranian Diaspora Collective: This testimonial is part of the ‘The Iran Prison Project’ that documents the living testimony of political prisoners. The aim is to bring the horrors of Iranian prisons to the attention of Western leaders and media, so that collective pressure can be placed on the Iranian government to release prisoners and stop executions. We also believe that one day, the Islamic Republic of Iran will be held to account for their crimes against humanity. On that day, these stories and testimonies will be essential.