China accused the UK of "groundless slanders" after the British government said Beijing's crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong was not in compliance with a treaty that paved the way for the city's return to Chinese control.
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared in court in Iran s capital Tehran on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe s lawyer said the charges were based on her participation in a protest outside the Iranian embassy in London 12 years ago, and her involvement in an interview with the BBC s Persian news service.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed in 2016 for plotting to topple the Iranian government , an allegation which she has consistently denied.
The UK-Iran dual national was released after five years on 17 March 2020 and then freed from house arrest on 7 March 2021.
She has not been allowed to leave Iran due to the new charges, a situation the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously described as totally unacceptable .
China accused the UK of “groundless slanders” after the British government said Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong (HK) wasn’t in compliance with a treaty that paved the way for the city’s return to Chinese control.
“The UK has no sovereignty, jurisdiction or right of ‘supervision’ over HK after the handover, and it has no so-called ‘obligations’ to HK citizens,” China said in a statement.
The statement came after UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday said China is in a “state of ongoing non-compliance” with the key treaty that paved the way for HK’s return to Chinese control.
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A British-Iranian woman held in the Islamic Republic since 2016 is a victim of torture and needs urgent treatment for her mental health, a medical report sent by a charity to the UK government and see.