A later (and longer) update – mainly because news is still slow in Iran. So I'm updating you on what has been happening in the Campaign over the past few days, as we passed 750,000 signatures – my part of the family story. I get asked a lot in interviews to talk about how I’m feeling (not my strongest point according to Nazanin). At the beginning, it was particularly hard to describe, having spent the month before trying not to feel. Now the answer is much better – now I am doing things to provoke some urgency into Nazanin’s and Gabriella’s situation as it enters its third month. Easier than the erratic sleeping and worrying over whether to be public or not. There’s no way of knowing whether it’s working given how unclear everything remains. But doing things is more than a way of keeping hopeful. It actively feeds that hope. It has mobilised a wide support network of family and friends, drawn out the kindness of strangers which I now encounter in so many ways, and it has given us this online community that I can one day show Nazanin. But campaigning fast is not without its dangers. Following my Prison Days update, Nazanin has been fully banned from calling me. She is only allowed to call her mother. In our last call just after the post, Nazanin was not pleased with her husband. There was no way of asking her properly, but of course she bears the consequences. Everyone in the family is a little bit careful what they tell me. She is also still waiting to have a bed, still currently sleeping on the floor, hoping for an upgrade when someone from the cell is released. My hope is rather that she is moved back to Tehran – either released, granted bail, or at least transferred – so that Gabriella can see her. Nazanin was only questioned once in the past month, so there is no obvious reason why she is still being kept over 1,000km away. She is also still waiting for access to a lawyer. While she was promised she would be allowed a lawyer from a specially approved list, after they had finished their interrogations of her in solitary, this access has not yet been granted. After more than 60 days without one, we should not overstate the extent to this is much of a legal process, so much as a political one. So late last week Tulip and I met with the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, to try and push Nazanin up the political agenda. Part of this new world of meeting people I only saw before on TV. He listened with patience and care, with a remarkable knowledge of North London curry houses. He also promised to give the campaign his full support, to raise the issue in private through links to Iran, and when appropriate in Parliament to ask Government to move faster. Tulip is also still waiting on a response from the Prime Minister. He has not yet responded to the petition from presented 3 weeks ago, nor to Tulip’s request for an urgent meeting to see whether he can intervene personally, as he has done for other families. I also went to Brussels with Kamran Foroughi to see what the EU could do for our families as European citizens. The answer was quite a lot, but also quite slowly. Hopefully too slow to be useful, but important to set in motion. Europe is significant for Iran with its new opening up of tourism and business, so it is no small thing that European citizens on holiday can just be taken captive without any ability to get them home or accountability for it being done. We met with the EU’s Task Force on Iran, which has been set up to promote a new European policy for Iran. They said they were taking an active interest in the case, and were keen to help if the Foreign Office asked. I have asked. We also met with a number of MEPs, in public and private. There is a big parliamentary report being prepared on the EU’s Iran policy later in the year – many were keen to reflect our families’ cases within it. We got particular support from MEPs from Eastern Europe – for whom the case resonated. Some of you have asked – can we do more? This week we have a family birthday to celebrate. But next week, Parliament returns. For those who are able to, there is a value in people continuing to contact their MPs. Parliament remains where government priorities are set and challenged. It was Parliament (through its Foreign Affairs Committee) who pointed out this year that government had downgraded human rights in its foreign policy, in favour of trade targets, and warned of potential consequences. It may be slow, but Parliament is the route for pressuring government to move quickly and do more for Nazanin and Gabriella. Many MPs across all parties have been quite generous in their efforts, even if some friends and family at home have had their frustrations. The request is to ask your MP to write to the Prime Minister urgently to request he does all in his power - including contacting the Iranian authorities directly - to free Nazanin.