{"id":2960,"date":"2022-03-17T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/2960\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:44:07","slug":"nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffes-release-learning-to-live-with-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/2960\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe&#8217;s release: Learning to live with freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p ><b >After six years of detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with his family.  But how does someone return to normal life after such a long period of detention, and what comes next?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;Take it with care,&#8221; says former hostage Terry Waite, who spent nearly five years in captivity in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >He compares the experience of a captive adjusting to normal life to that of a diver returning to the surface, adding: &#8220;Go up too fast and you&#8217;ll twist. If you come out smoothly, you&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Waite was released in 1991 and went on to create the charity Hostage International, which supports freed hostages and their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;It&#8217;s been very difficult for Nazanin because of a lot of the uncertainties: threatened with being arrested again, threatened with a longer prison term and never knowing,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;And somehow he&#8217;s had to learn to live one day at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Waite says it took about 12 months for him to really come back to life after his release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;The whole experience they&#8217;ve been through has to be processed. Sometimes people need professional help, sometimes they don&#8217;t. But they just need time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, returned to the UK from Tehran after her release was secured on Wednesday after months of negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >It marked the end of a harrowing ordeal in which Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained after being charged in 2016 with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.  She always denied the claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<div >\n<ul >\n<li>Why has Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe been released now?<\/li>\n<li>The Iranian-British family is delighted with his release<\/li>\n<li>Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?<\/li>\n<li>Did the tank debt cost Nazanin his freedom?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Hostage International CEO Lara Symons says the return home comes with a lot of hardship. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;The spotlight is on you and now everyone sees you as a former hostage, and whatever you do with your life in the future, you will be remembered as that former hostage,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;You have that label, that badge, and you have to learn to use it and wear it because people see you through that prism. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;That can be very difficult and it&#8217;s a challenge, but it can turn into something positive, as you see with Terry Waite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >She says that people often have to learn to take control of their own lives again and warns that even the most mundane tasks can present challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >\u201cPeople who have been in captivity, whether they have been held by a criminal kidnapping group or imprisoned by a state, have not been empowered to make their own decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >\u201cI heard hostages say that when they returned home they were offered chicken or pasta on the plane and they couldn&#8217;t make that decision. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;The brain has to get used to adapting to being a free person with freedom of choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Lela Tsiskarishvili, a psychologist and president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture (IRCT), agrees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;Things that may seem very simple can be very difficult for them,&#8221; she says. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;Often because the way the brain works means they&#8217;re still in the past because of all the memories, which prevents them from being here and now in the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >During her captivity, the Redress charity said Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe needed urgent medical treatment for her mental health. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >And Ms Tsiskarishvili, who has two decades of experience treating torture survivors in detention, says detention can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;It&#8217;s small steps and small wins because the experience can be very unsettling,&#8221; he says, adding, &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;m in awe of the clients we work with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Ms Tsiskarishvili also warns that it can be difficult for families too. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >\u201cMainly it is difficult for the children.  It is also difficult for parents to return to a child who grew up several years later and with whom there was limited contact. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >\u201cIt&#8217;s almost getting to know each other again.  There are also problems with couples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe spent her first night in the UK in bed with her husband Richard and their seven-year-old daughter Gabriella in a safe house, her sister-in-law Rebecca Ratcliffe says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Barbara Ratcliffe, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe&#8217;s mother-in-law, says her granddaughter had no recollection of living with her mother and her son would also find it difficult to adjust. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Tulip Siddiq, a Hampstead MP who helped campaign for the release, says: &#8220;Richard is an accountant from West Hampstead. He is not a man who expected to appear on TV on a hunger strike, lobby the prime minister and get to number 10 &#8220;. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;They [Richard and Nazanin] They&#8217;re going to be very different people, and I think there&#8217;s going to be a huge process where they have to get to know each other. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;But Gabriella also has to trust her mother again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Ms. Symons says she finds that children often help ex-detainees get back into a routine. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;Absolutely focusing on those little pleasures in life is a great way to start, and getting back into a routine and having kids in the family helps with that,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;Kids need a routine, so responding to that and focusing on that is really helpful. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;But yeah, it&#8217;s a long journey and it&#8217;s going to take time. It&#8217;s about taking it day by day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;There is a positive light at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-60781224?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six years of detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with his family. But how does someone return to normal life after such a long period of detention, and what comes next? &#8220;Take it with care,&#8221; says former hostage Terry Waite, who spent nearly five years in captivity in Lebanon. 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