LONDON: The first life-saving assistance package to help India meet the urgent need for ventilators and oxygen concentrators in its devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has been dispatched by the UK and is due to arrive in New Delhi in the early hours of Tuesday.
Further shipments, paid for by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), are being organised over the course of this week and will include nine airline container loads of supplies, including 495 oxygen concentrators, 120 non-invasive ventilators and 20 manual ventilators. The focus at the moment is on expediting a constant flow of the equipment required immediately on the ground in the most efficient way, UK government sources said.
Iran has sentenced a UK-Iranian woman to another year in prison after she already served 5 years for alleged spying. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's supporters say Tehran is using her as collateral in a financial dispute.
UK Condemns Iran’s ‘Inhumane’ Sentencing of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The British government has condemned the Iranian regime after British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given a further one-year jail term for spreading “propaganda” against the regime.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe completed a five-year sentence in March on spying charges, the last year of which was spent under house arrest due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
Her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told The Associated Press on Monday that she had been given a new jail term on a charge of spreading “propaganda against the system” for participating in a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in London in 2009.
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