The new sentence of one year in prison as well as a ban from leaving the country for Nazanin Zaghari
28-April-2021
Category: Prisoners، Women
27-April-2021
Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: The lawyer of Nazanin Zaghari, an Iranian-British citizen whose five-year sentence for espionage ended in March 2021, announced that his client has been sentenced to another year in prison as well as a one-year ban from leaving the country in her second case.
According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Hojjat Kermani, Nazanin Zaghari’s lawyer, said on Monday, April 26, that the sentence was issued for Mrs. Zaghari on charge of propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic.
After serving a five-year prison sentence, Nazanin Zaghari was released on March 7, 2021. Before her release however, a new case had been opened against her on charge of propaganda against the regime.
Reacting to the verdict, British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: “Iran’s decision to sentence Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in prison is cruel, inhumane and wholly unjustified,” and that his Government will do all it can to bring Nazanin back to the UK.
Johnson also added that: “The UK is working alongside the United States on the issue of dual-national jailed in the Islamic republic.”
In a tweet, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the sentence is “totally inhumane and wholly unjustified.” He also demanded Tehran to release the British-Iranian mother of one ‘immediately’ so she can finally return to her family in the UK
On September 8, 2020, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran to be notified of her new case. And then on November 2, the court of first instance for this British-Iranian citizen’s new case was was held in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.
She was accused of “propaganda activities against the regime” through participating in a rally in front of the Iranian embassy in London in 2009, as well as giving an interview to the BBC Persian network at the same time.
The last hearing for Mrs. Zaghari’s new case was held on March 14, 2021, in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016, when she was going to return back to Britain. Later in September 2016, she was sentenced to five years in prison by a court presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati. And then, on March 17, 2020, she was released from Evin Prison with an electronic ankle tag. And finally, after serving five years in prison by completion her sentence, in early March 2021, she was released from Evin Prison.
Nazanin Zaghari has previously worked with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Reuters news agency. And also for some time she worked in the administrative department of the BBC’s international charity.