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Pizza dough and prison TV dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran

The Guardian UK · 20 September 2026 at 08:44

Pizza dough and prison TV dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran

Former charity worker tells Big Brue festival in Somerset of the strange comforts that helped her during imprisonment It is a TV show about women confined to prison in the US, but Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe found watching Orange is the New Black with her fellow inmates a strange comfort after smuggling episodes into her Iranian jail cell, downloaded on to an illegal USB stick.

The British-Iranian former charity worker was detained in 2016 for more than five years and kept in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.

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Pizza dough and prison TV dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran

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