Pizza dough and prison TV dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran
By Helena HortonZimbabwe
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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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- 88 words · 1 min read
- Published
- September 20, 2026
- Byline
- Helena Horton
- Source
- The Guardian