Iranian authorities have returned the passport of a UK woman who has been detained in the country for almost six years, raisi🌠ng hopes of progress in negotia﷽tions toward her release.
Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari♓-Ratcliffe remains at her parents' home in Tehran, said Tulip Siddiq, her local 🎃lawmaker in the UK.
“I also understand that there is a British negotiating team in Te🤪hran right now,'' Siddiq said on Twitter.
“I will keep posting updates as I get them.”
Zaghaꦕri-Ratcliffe, who has dual UK-Iranian citizenship, served five y✤ears in prison after being taken into custody at Tehran's airport in April 2016.
She was later convicted of plotting the overthrow of Iran's government, a charge that she, her suppoꦆrters and rights groups deny.
She has been held under house arrest and unable to leave the ♚country ꧂since her release.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe's local lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, al💙so told The Associated Press she had received her British passport. However, Kermani said she remained banned from leaving the country.
“We hope that these neg🍸otiations will be concluded🀅 soon,” he said.
With PTI inputs.
