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		</div><p>The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said her temporary leave from prison in Iran has been extended.</p>
<p>Richard Ratcliffe said his wife’s father had been told her temporary release from Evin prison in Tehran – granted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic – had been extended by two weeks and will now run until April 18.</p>
<p>Mr Ratcliffe added that his wife’s file has been put forward to the Iranian Prosecutor General to be considered for clemency.</p>
<p>The British-Iranian woman has been living in relative isolation at her parents’ house in Tehran while the country gets to grips with the outbreak.</p>
<p>She has to wear an ankle tag during the furlough, and can only go within a 300-metre range of her parents’ home.</p>
<p>Iran is among the countries worst-affected by Covid-19 – reporting over 29,000 confirmed cases and more than 2,200 deaths from the disease.</p>
<p>Former foreign secretary for the UK Jeremy Hunt welcomed the news on Twitter – calling it a “glimmer of hope amidst the darkness”.</p>
<p><em>“Let’s pray that this remarkable family are reunited soon,”</em> he added.</p>
<p>The family’s MP Tulip Siddiq tweeted that every day Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is out of prison is “better than the alternative”.</p>
<p>But she said that the main focus remained “getting her home and away from the danger of coronavirus in Iran as soon as possible”.</p>
<p>Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport while travelling to show her young daughter, Gabriella, to her parents in April 2016.</p>
<p>She was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations, which she denies, of plotting to overthrow the Tehran government.</p>
<p>She was later afforded diplomatic protection by the UK Government, which argues that she is innocent and that her treatment by Iran failed to meet obligations under international law.</p>
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