Jailed British-Iranian aid workerNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended a hunger strike in Tehran designed to pushfor her release, her husband told the BBC on Saturday.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project managerwith the Thomson Reuters Foundation, began the hunger strike roughly two weeksago.
She was arrested in April 2016 at aTehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a familyvisit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plottingto overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.
Her family and the Foundation, acharity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and ReutersNews, deny the charge. Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, told BBC radio that hehad spoken to his wife on Saturday and she was ending the action.
"She's decided to stop herhunger strike," he said. "She said that in fact she'd had somebreakfast this morning."
Ratcliffe, who is ending his ownhunger strike, said the protest had helped raise the profile of his wife'scase.
"In Iran, we've become a muchbigger story than we were before and there's an awareness that really thisneeds to be solved."
