‘Nazanin’ Documentary, on Iranian-British Woman Freed After Six-Year Detention in Iran, Coming to Channel 4

variety.com:

Manori Ravindran International EditorA documentary that goes behind the scenes on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year ordeal is coming to Channel 4The U.K.

broadcaster has commissioned a single documentary, entitled “Nazanin,” from filmmaker and journalist Darius Bazargan. The project claims to give “the definitive exclusive access into one of biggest international news stories of the last 6 years,” and follows Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard and his family as he campaigns to bring his wife Nazanin home from detention in Iran.Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned to England this week after six years of detention in Iran, where she was imprisoned after being convicted of unspecified “national security-related” crimes in 2016.

Her detention is believed to have been in direct response to an unpaid £400 million debt owed by the U.K. government to Iran, which has now been paid.

The doc will reveal the “inner-workings” of the real-life drama for Richard Ratcliffe, who launched a very public campaign to free his wife, as well as his young daughter Gabriella, and from Nazanin herself while she was still detained in Iran.An official synopsis provided by Channel 4 reads: “We see her young daughter Gabriella trying to cope with the separation from her mother.