British citizen imprisoned in Iran may have coronavirus

Published March 2, 2020 10:26pm ET



U.K. officials are petitioning Iran for approval to test a British woman held prisoner by the Islamic Republic for coronavirus.

Tehran arrested and imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in 2016 on charges of planning espionage against the Iranian government. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, now claims Iran has left his wife exposed to the illness that is sweeping through the Middle Eastern nation, according to the New York Post.

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