Alistair Burt will bring diplomatic clout to complex cases involving human rights violations and arbitrary detention The Foreign Office has appointed a special envoy for British citizens detained overseas, a new role to deal with “complex consular cases” such as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/14/foreign-office-first-special-envoy-british-citizens-detained-overseas)