Environmentalist held in Tehran 'on hunger strike': sister

London (AFP) March 21, 2022

Morad Tahbaz, an environmental campaigner being held in Iran, has gone on hunger strike, his sister said on Monday, accusing the UK government of abandoning him after two other detainees were released. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori flew home last week, at the same time as the UK government repaid a longstanding debt to Tehran. But Tahbaz, 69, who holds British, US and Ir