Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe suspected of having coronavirus, Mattha Busby and Michael Safi, The Guardian, 29/02/2020
Despite reports of Covid-19 in Evin prison, staff are refusing to test her, say campaigners
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has issued a statement saying she feels ‘very bad’. Photograph: Family Handout/PA
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran, is suspected to have the coronavirus, her family has said.
The Free Nazanin Campaign said that although there were reports of at least one coronavirus-related inmate death inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, staff had refused to test her.
In a statement issued via the campaign, Zaghari-Ratcliffe said: “I am not good. I feel very bad in fact. It is a strange cold. Not like usual. I know the kinds of cold I normally have, how my body reacts.
“This is different. I am just as bad as I was. I often get better after three days. But with this there is no improvement. I haven’t got one bit better.”
She said she had had a severely sore throat for more than five days, after first experiencing a runny nose and a cough.
“Now I have this continual cold sweat, I have a temperature, though not all the time,” she said, telling of shivering every night for the past couple of days and feeling nauseous.
“I have difficulty breathing and pain in my muscles, and fatigue. I do not pant, but I am finding it hard to breathe. And I am just very, very tired. I have a real tiredness, and a heavy head. I am too tired to do anything.
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Sandrine Perrot (2 mars 2020). Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe suspected of having coronavirus, Mattha Busby and Michael Safi, The Guardian, 29/02/2020. Fariba Adelkhah & Roland Marchal Support Committee. Consulté le 21 janvier 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/oosz
