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Iran hands British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe another jail sentence
An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and accused of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime.
She and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, repeatedly denied the charges against her, but she was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail.
She was moved from prison to house arrest as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Her ankle monitor was removed last month when her five-year jail sentence came to an end, but she immediately faced fresh charges from Tehran.
The lawyer of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she has been sentenced to another year in prison in Iran and given a one-year ban on leaving the country, in what London called a "totally inhumane" decision.
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A British woman previously jailed in Iran has been sentenced to another year behind bars and banned from leaving the country.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, was found guilty of propaganda activities against the regime and given her sentence in an Iranian Revolutionary court on Monday.
Last month, the British-Iranian aid worker completed a five-year sentence in Tehran on widely refuted spying charges.
Hopes that she could finally return to Britain were dashed by the announcement of a new court case involving allegations of propaganda, which, like the accusations of espionage, she denied.