Iran Sentences British-Iranian Aid Worker to One Year in Jail

An Iranian Revolutionary court has sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term and she is banned from leaving the country for a year, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website on Monday.
"Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and a
one year ban from leaving the country on charges of propaganda against the
republic," Kermani told the website.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe,
a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation charity, was arrested at
a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the
clerical establishment.
She was
released from house arrest last month at the end of a five-year sentence, but
immediately ordered back into court to face the new propaganda charges.
Kermani said
he would appeal the new sentence within 21 days under Iranian law.
Her family and
the foundation, a charity that operates independently of media firm Thomson
Reuters and its news subsidiary Reuters, deny the charges.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe
spent four years in jail before being released into house arrest in March 2020
during the coronavirus.