Mother of West Fleming imprisoned in Iran calls on the Belgian government to do more to get him released | VRT NWS: news

In an interview with the Francophone public broadcaster RTBF the mother of Olivier Vandecasteele, an NGO worker from West Flanders that has been held in an Iranian jail for the past 11 months, has called on the Belgian Government to do more to ensure her son’s released. On what was Olivier Vandecasteele’s 42nd birthday, his mother Annie Santy told RTBF “I would like to hold him in my arms”. The Belgian aid worker was detained by the Iranians last February. They accuse him of a number of offences