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Paul Peachey

Paul Peachey

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Paul has been based in London for The National since July 2017. He worked as a crime correspondent for a decade, and has been a staffer for newspapers and international news wires covering the UK, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He has worked on TV documentaries and produced radio programmes for the BBC.
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Gabriella Ratcliffe, daughter of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, protests outside the Iranian Embassy in London. Reuters
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Family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe protest outside Iranian embassy in London

Richard Ratcliffe prevented from handing over a petition demanding her return

EuropeMarch 08, 2021
A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, poses for a photo after she was released from house arrest in Tehran. Reuters
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released – but her return to Britain is blocked

British-Iranian aid worker's five-year jail term ends but return to the UK is delayed by Tehran hearing

EuropeMarch 08, 2021
Boris Johnson visits a Covid-19 vaccination centre in London. The British Prime Minister says children returning to schools is the first step of lifting lockdown. AFP
Back to school: two Covid tests a week for England's pupils

Children return to classroom in first stage of country's emergence from lockdown

EuropeMarch 07, 2021
Khairi Saadallah sought out a prominent extremist preacher in jail, before stabbing three men to death on his release last year. AFP
UK prisons must do better at identifying extremist lies

Warning follows attacks by former prisoners who claimed to have renounced violence

EuropeMarch 01, 2021
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell didn't appear at the rescheduled EU-Iran business forum, which was held online. AP
Senior EU diplomat Josep Borrell absent from business forum with Iran

Rescheduled event goes ahead online without bloc’s foreign policy chief and Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif

EuropeMarch 01, 2021
Shamima Begum was 15 when she ran away from her home in London to join ISIS. Reuters
ISIS supporter Shamima Begum blocked from returning to UK

Woman who left London aged 15 to join the extremists in Syria loses case at the UK's highest court

EuropeFebruary 26, 2021
Amanda Staveley lost her legal battle against Barclays Bank over a 2008 fundraising operation. Getty Images
UK businesswoman loses fight with Barclays over secret Qatar deal

Judge accuses bank of 'serious deceit' but declines to pay UK businesswoman any damages

BankingFebruary 26, 2021
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is under house arrest at her parents’ home in Tehran. Reuters
Actresses count down Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s 5-year sentence with readings of Iran prison letters

Daily videos will feature letters and poems written by past and present political prisoners held in Iran’s jails

EuropeFebruary 26, 2021
The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead, one of North London's most expensive streets. Alamy
Bankrupt Iraqi developer 'duped' businessmen over prestige UK property projects

Kuwaiti investors sank millions into housing projects aimed at Middle East buyers which turned to dust

EuropeFebruary 25, 2021
Syrian defendant Eyad Al Gharib arrives to hear his verdict in the court in Koblenz. AFP
Syrian intelligence officer in first prosecution over Assad regime torture

Eyad Al Gharib jailed for four and a half years after victim tells court of 'the torture and the trauma'

EuropeFebruary 24, 2021
Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is serving a minimum 12-year jail term in Iran. AFP
Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh appeals to UN over prison executions

Campaigner urges the global body to try to prevent extensive use of the death penalty

WorldFebruary 24, 2021
Abu Walaa appears in court to hear the verdict after a four-year trial in Celle, Germany. Getty
Key ISIS recruiter in Germany sentenced to 10 years in prison

Abu Walaa was known as the 'faceless preacher' for his online sermons delivered with his back to camera

EuropeFebruary 24, 2021
Sara Khan, the UK government's anti-extremism co-ordinator, says loopholes in the law allow extremists to operate with impunity. GARY DOAK / Alamy Stock Photo
Britain unable to prosecute the 'next' Anjem Choudary under current laws

Sara Khan warns extremists are targeting the vulnerable online to sow divisions

EuropeFebruary 24, 2021
The family of Baquer (L) and Siamak Namazi say that negotiations with Iran should commence only after foreign prisoners detained unfairly are released. Family handout
Former Unicef official banned from leaving Iran despite life-threatening condition

Baquer Namazi’s sentence was commuted in 2020 but efforts to secure a passport have been blocked

EuropeFebruary 22, 2021
Abu Zubaydah has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. Department of Defence/Getty Images
Judge rules against Guantanamo Bay prisoner in CIA ‘black site’ torture battle

Suspected senior Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah wanted to sue British officials for his treatment in secret detention facilities under English law

EuropeFebruary 19, 2021
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