Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran for alleged spying, has been transferred back to prison from a hospital psychiatric ward she described as “torture”.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife had been kept in solitary confinement and chained to hospital bed before she was returned to jail on Saturday.
She was moved from Evin prison to the mental health ward of Tehran’s Iman Khomeini hospital last week.
But she was transferred back to to prison after breaking out of her bindings and telling security guards she was at risk of self-harming if she remained in the ward, said Mr Ratcliffe, who spoke to his wife on Sunday and Monday.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “broken” by her time in hospital and was “relieved” to be back in prison, her husband added.