Woman Is Free – level 1

12-03-2021 07:00

Nazanin Zaghardi-Ratcliffe is 42 years old. She comes from Iran. Her husband is British. They live in the UK.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe travels to Iran. She travels with her little daughter. They visit their family in Iran. They travel back to the UK in 2016. Police arrest them at the airport in Iran. Police say that the woman is dangerous for the Iranian government. They say she works secretly. Zaghari-Ratcliffe says that it iMrZeroPages not true.

The woman goes to prison for five years. People protest in the UK. British politicians want to help the woman. They cannot help.

The woman leaves the prison last week. She will go to court again. Her husband hopes that she will go back home soon.

Difficult words: husband (a married man), secretly (when you do something and other people do not know about it), court (a place where a group of people decide about someone who does something bad).

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