Prisoner 951

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Prisoner 951

Richard's 21-day hunger strike brings global attention but seemingly little progress. As his health fails, he feels unsure what to do next. Then, in March 2022, after six harrowing years, Nazanin is told she can return to the UK, but not before being forced to sign a false confe...

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Season 1
52:19
Gabriella turns 5, it's time for her to go back to the UK. Nazanin makes the ultimate sacrifice and bids her daughter a bittersweet farewell. Gabriella and Richard learn to be a family again. When Nazanin's sentence finally ends, another is handed down. Covid strikes, bringing Nazanin an uncertain furlough. With her ordeal...
Richard uncovers a decades-old secret debt owed by the UK to Iran which may be the key to Nazanin's release. But while he is pressing the UK to act, Nazanin is unravelling. Despair drives her to hunger strike. Starved and broken, it is love of her family that saves her and then her transfer to the Women's Ward. After a pol...
Contact at last. Nazanin is alive and briefly reunited with Gabriella before being sent back to prison. Hopes of freedom edging ever further. In London, Richard battles a seemingly sluggish and dispassionate government. Attempts at garnering attention for his wife's plight are failing. Nazanin is handed a five-year sentenc...
April 2016, Tehran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is seized at the airport and separated from her baby daughter. Accused of spying, she is falsely imprisoned in Iran. In London, her husband Richard comes to the awful realisation his wife has been taken hostage. Richard is told to stay silent, to be patient. He refuses - this c...
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