Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for end to ‘fundamentally wrong’ indefinite jail terms

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Exclusive: Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained for six years in Iran, has urged justice secretary David Lammy to help thousands trapped on IPP jail terms, adding: ‘Punishment should fit the crime’

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called for new justice secretary David Lammy to “end arbitrary detention” in Britain as she voices support for the thousands trapped in abolished indefinite jail terms.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for end to ‘fundamentally wrong’ indefinite jail terms

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