Iran, Nazanin released after 5 years but again accused

(ANSA) - TEHRAN, MARCH 07 - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Anglo-Iranian woman detained in Iran for five years after being convicted of espionage, was released after having finished serving her sentence.

However, he will not be able to leave Iran but will have to appear again next Sunday in front of the revolutionary court in Tehran to answer for a new accusation, not yet specified.

His lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, told the agency Irna.

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation sentenced at the time in Tehran for an alleged espionage case - as part of a controversial trial - was arrested in 2016 while traveling to the country of origin. A few months ago, due to the risk of contagion from Covid-19, she was transferred from prison to house arresters at her parents' home in Tehran, but with the obligation to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. British Labor MP Tulip Siddiq, an elector in the college in the area where the woman's family lives and in contact with her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said the electronic bracelet was removed today. The new call before the Revolutionary Court of Tehran was announced in recent days by the spokesman of the Iranian judiciary, who however did not specify what the new accusation was or the date of the hearing. The woman has always declared her innocent, while the London government also disputes the Iranian accusations. The British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab called the treatment inflicted on the woman "cruel and intolerable" and ordered Iran to give her her freedom once and for all so that she can return to the United Kingdom as her husband and children. (HANDLE).