‘Torture victim’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe needs urgent psychiatric help – charity

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe last week completed a five-year sentence in Tehran on spying charges levied by Iranian authorities

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a victim of torture, suffers major depression and PTSD and requires urgent psychiatric treatment, according to a charity (Ian West/PA)

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a victim of torture, suffers major depression and PTSD and requires urgent psychiatric treatment, according to a charity which commissioned a detailed medical assessment of her.

As Mrs Zaghari-Ratliffe prepares to return to court in Iran on Sunday, human rights group Redress has called on the Government to recognise her as a victim of torture, having sent the Foreign Secretary the 77-page report on the mother-of-one it commissioned from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT).