Iran court upholds one-year sentence given to British-born Nazanin

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Iran court upholds one-year sentence given to British-born Nazanin

Justice Babai, Court 54, has upheld the term of 1 year. As of Monday, there was no summons date for the prison cell, the campaign wrote.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was handed a second prison term and a travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime at the end of April. She was first detained by a Tehran airport in April 2016 after a vacation with her daughter.

She was accused of working with organizations that allegedly tried to overthrow the Iranian regime and was later convicted and sentenced to five years in jail.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her employer, Thomson Reuters Foundation, have repeatedly denied the espionage charges against her. After the latest setback in her case, Zaghari-Ratcliffe has asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to speak to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the hope that he can press her release with the Iranian delegation, traveling to Glasgow for COP 26. Nazanin has asked to speak with the PM - he invited the Iranian President to Glasgow next month for COP 26 - it is time for him to sit down with the Iranians and end this finally, the Free Nazanin campaign tweeted on Saturday. In 2019, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was awarded British diplomatic protection and has been named prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. She has undertaken at least three hunger strikes during her detention, one of them in a desperate attempt to seek medical treatment for lumps in her breasts and numbness in her limbs. Last February, her family said she believed she contracted Covid - 19 in Evin Prison Outside of Tehran. In 2019, her supporters indicated that she was transferred to a clinic in Tehran and was being denied visits from her father.