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Sir Andy & Nazanin’s Incredible Political Encounter Evokes Memories of Mandela & Poitier

In 2016 Andy Murray Won Wimbledon For A Second Time, Finished The Year As World No.1 In The Singles, And World No.1 In The Doubles – Partnered With His Brother Jamie @jamie_murray. That’s The First Time The Latter Has Ever Happened In History.

Political Prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Was Finally Released From Virtually Six Years Imprisonment In 2022. She Revealed That Watching Murray’s Success At Wimbledon That Year (Having Had Fluke Acess To A Telly) Helped To Keep Her Hopes Alive. He Subsequently Invited Her To Wimbledon So That She Could Watch The Tennis In Totally Different Circumstances. That Is So Moving It Brought A Tear To Our Eyes.

Nazanin’s Dedicated Husband, Richard Ratcliffe, Who Campaigned So Hard For Her Release In Her Absence, Did Not Appear To Be With Her At The Special Occassion.

Before Nazanin’s Experience As A Political Prisoner Being Inspired By Watching A Real Celluloid Story From The Outside World, The Story of The Late South African President Nelson Mandela Having A Comparable Experience of Inspiration During Political Incarceration Has Also Been Told.

At The 1968 Oscars The Film In The Heat of The Night Won Best Picture And Also Best Actor For Rod Steiger. Sidney Poitier Won A BAFTA For Best Foreign Actor. In The Film A White Racist Man Slapped His Detective Character And His Detective Character Slapped The White Racist Man Back. Reportedly Political Prisoner Nelson Mandela Heard About It And So Wanted To See It,

So That A Clip Was Smuggled Into His South-African Prison For Him To Watch. During Apartheid!

It Reportedly Helped Him Survive His Notorious 27 Years As He Was Inspired To Believe That The Progress He Fought For Was Beginning To Happen Outside. It Was Infact Such A Ground-Breaking Hollywood Moment It Was Banned In Several States. Poitier Was A Revered Actor With A Reputation For Being Debonaire And WAs Also A Dedicated Civil Rights Activist And Who Eventually Became An International Diplomat.