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For a man who spent five years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Anoosheh Ashoori laughs a lot.
Snatched off the streets of Iran while visiting his sick mother in 2017, the British-Iranian father was interrogated and held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
But, last week, almost out of the blue, he and fellow detained dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were put on a plane and reunited with their families in the UK.
In 2020, his wife Sherry sent me recordings of Anoosheh explaining from prison how his life had turned into a living nightmare.
Anoosheh Ashoori’s voice messages: ‘We are one breath away from death in this circle of hell’
Arriving at their family home in Lewisham, my colleagues have taken over the tidy living room with cameras and lights for Anoosheh’s sit-down interview with political editor Beth Rigby, which you can watch here.
Two years after Sky published his voice recordings, Anoosheh greets me with a warm handshake. We all fall into easy conversation about how surreal the situation is and how today’s filming will work.
It is his first TV interview and he is understandably nervous. After some reassurance, he seems to pause, then laughs and jokes: “Well, this won’t be an interrogation.”
This dry British humour turns out to be a big part of Anoosheh’s personality; the 67-year-old is remarkably quick to smile and laugh despite what he has been through.
Anoosheh with his family. Left to right: Elika, Anoosheh, Sherry and Aryan
One of his first things he ate on his return to the UK was fried chicken from south London’s much loved Morley’s chain. I asked what else he had.
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Source : skynews
