Emily Thornberry MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, commenting on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s imprisonment in Iran, said:

“It is no longer good enough for Downing Street and the Foreign Office to ‘raise concerns’ about this case, it is time for them to demand answers.

“In the same week that we have restored a UK ambassador to Iran, it beggars belief that a British‎ citizen should be jailed for five years without any statement of the charge against her, and it is grotesque that a young mother should be removed from her baby to serve as a pawn in prisoner swaps.

“The Iranian government needs to drop this case and return Nazanin to her family here in Britain, and her own government needs to demand that action now.”