Please pre order our new single to help /yZcoYoS0KR They feature in the song's moving video - with the seven-year-old seen playing the drums and guitar. Richard and his seven-year-old daughter Gabriella were invited to Liverpool to record with the 80s soul band. "It's absolutely desperate that after all these years she still hasn’t been released back to her family…if only this song could help in some tiny way." "We only hope she knows that there are people here who care…the song is just to deliver the simple message that we are all still standing shoulder to should with Nazanin, her devoted husband Richard and beautiful daughter Gabriella," said singer Gary Christian.
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The Christians decided to record the single after seeing Richard's 21-day hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office to lobby the British government to take firmer action towards securing Nazanin's release. The song - Naz Don’t Cry - is a rework of the Liverpool group's 1991 single Man Don't Cry, released in aid of British journalist and writer John McCarthy, who was held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years. Richard Ratcliffe has been campaigning for the release of his wife, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was jailed by Iran in April 2016 accused of spying, charges which her family, supporters, and human rights groups strongly deny. The family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an aid worker detained in Iran, have joined forces with British pop group The Christians to drop a Christmas single in support of her release.