The sentence for making propaganda has been condemned as inhumane by the Foreign Secretary
26 April 2021 • 1:44pm
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to a further one-year jail term in Iran on Monday, drawing condemnation from Prime Minister Boris Johnson who said she should not be returned to prison. I don t think it s right at all that Nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in jail, Mr Johnson said following news that the 42-year-old mother had been convicted for a second time.
The UK is working alongside the United States on the issue of dual-national jailed in the Islamic republic, he added.
An Iranian court has sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website on Monday. Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and one year ban from leaving the country on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic, Hojjat Kermani told the website.
He added that she has not yet been summoned to prison and that he plans to appeal the sentence within 21 days under Iranian law.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was released from house arrest in mid-March, at the end of a five-year prison sentence, but she was ordered to stay in the country to attend court on another charge.
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EU, UK and US offer support as COVID-19 ‘swallowing’ people in IndiaInternational 2021-04-26, by Editor Comments Off 0
The European Union, UK and the United States have pledged to help India as the country battles a devastating surge of COVID-19 infections.
For the fourth straight day, India on Sunday set a global daily record of new cases, spurred by an insidious new variant that emerged here. The surge has undermined the government’s premature claims of victory over the pandemic.
The 349,691 new infections brought India’s total to more than 16.9 million, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry reported another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing India’s fatalities to 192,311.