He has previous for "helping" uk citizens in trouble abroad.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9226936.html
Mr Johnson was accused of playing into the regime’s hands when, during his tenure in the foreign office, he told a Commons committee the British-Iranian citizen had been “teaching people journalism” in the country when she was arrested on charges of espionage.
The claim was used by the nation as evidence to double her prison sentence, furthering allegations she had been spreading “propaganda against the regime”. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe have maintained she was on holiday at the time of her arrest.