Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to a year in Iran prison
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26 April, 2021, 05:35 pm
Last modified: 26 April, 2021, 05:37 pm
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker, has been sentenced to jail for one year after being found guilty of propaganda activities against the regime in Iran.
She was also given a one-year ban on leaving the country, reports BBC.
Her lawyer said she had been accused of taking part in a demonstration in London 12 years ago and giving an interview to the BBC Persian Service.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first jailed in Iran in 2016.
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