am pleading to the British authorities, now that delegations are traveling between the two countries to improve trade and understanding that all efforts are made to bring my wife and daughter home as quickly as possible, and to get Nazanin out of solitary confinement immediately.”

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kamran Foroughi, son of detainee Kamal Foroughi, protests outside the Iranian embassy in London. Photograph: Amnesty International

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was born in Tehran in 1978 and moved to the UK in 2007, where she met Ratcliffe while studying. They married in Winchester in 2009, and five years later Gabriella was born in London.

Other Britons held in Iran include Kamal Foroughi. Last week marked five years since the British-Iranian businessman was imprisoned. There are concerns about the state of his health and his family"It was a bureaucratic nightmare," said Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit Christian legal defense group. "He was completely stymied from sharing his Christian views with anybody else." The case "establishes that national parks are no different than any other public park," Kellum said. "There's no distinction now between Mount Rushmore and the city park down the street." Groups of 25 or fewer people may now demonstrate or distribute or sell printed material in designated areas of national parks and historic sites without a permit, according to interim regulations to be published soon in the Federal Register.

"In the very same week, the administration says that it absolutely must appeal a federal court's decision on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' while it orders the Justice