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Following the the foreign secretary's apology for saying the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran was there for anything other than a holiday, an academic has been describing her time spent in the same Iranian jail.

Canadian-Iranian Homa Hoodfar, who was imprisoned in Tehran on unjustified spying charges but was released because of poor health, told Radio 4's World at One that when she met Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the summer "her hair was falling out a lot...and she had lost a lot of weight".

She added "they had reduced her sentence to five years, but she was crying because five years, when you have a two year old daughter, is still a long time".

(Photo: A 'Free Nazanin' sign at a vigil in London for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who is imprisoned in Iran
Credit: Getty Images)