Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran nearly six years ago, has been released and is on her way back to the UK.
The 43-year-old was arrested in 2016 and charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denied.
Her MP Tulip Siddiq tweeted that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was at the airport in Tehran.
She was under house arrest and got her British passport back this week.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who lives in Hampstead, London with their daughter Gabriella, had campaigned for her release, including through a hunger strike in October last year.
Earlier, Ms Siddiq, Labor MP for Hampstead and Kilburn in London, said Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe had “dreamed” about the day she could return to the UK.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told BBC Breakfast that securing her freedom and the freedom of other dual nationality detainees – such as Anoosheh Ashoori and Morad Tahbaz – was “an absolute priority”.
A £400million debt linked to a canceled 1970s order for 1,500 Chieftain tanks has been linked to the continued detention of Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual British-Iranian citizens held in the country – despite the government’s acknowledgment of the two issues said should not be linked.
Ms Truss said the debt was “legitimate” and the government was “looking at ways to pay it”.
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