The Ratclliffe family when Gabriella was one week old
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will have to wait for a verdict after appearing in court in Iran on Sunday (March 14), facing a second set of charges.
According to her local MP, Tulip Siddiq, Nazanin and her family expect news later this week after a 20 minute hearing in front of Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who has long-overseen her case.
Days after the end of her five-year prison sentence, Nazanin is again accused of spreading anti-regime propaganda in Iran - something she has always denied.
Nazanin was told she will hear a verdict within seven working days .
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the fresh charges against the British-Iranian charity worker are "wholly arbitrary." The 42-year-old is back in court, accused of "spreading propaganda" against Tehran.
UK slams unacceptable new trial against British-Iranian charity worker
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the fresh charges against the British-Iranian charity worker are wholly arbitrary. The 42-year-old is back in court, accused of spreading propaganda against Tehran.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her daughter Gabriella in a photo taken in 2016
Britain hit out at the Iranian government on Sunday, branding the fresh trial for UK national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on propaganda charges unacceptable.
The British-Iranian charity worker appeared in court in Tehran earlier in the day, a week after she finished serving five years at Iran s notorious Evin prison after a widely disputed conviction for spying.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a victim of torture, suffers major depression and PTSD and requires urgent psychiatric treatment, according to a charity which commissioned a detailed medical assessment of her.
As Mrs Zaghari-Ratliffe prepares to return to court in Iran on Sunday, human rights group Redress has called on the Government to recognise her as a victim of torture, having sent the Foreign Secretary the 77-page report on the mother-of-one it commissioned from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT).
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, last week completed a five-year sentence in Tehran on spying charges levied by Iranian authorities, the last year of which was spent under house arrest due to the pandemic.