A revolutionary court in Iran sentenced the British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in prison for being
found guilty of "propaganda activities
against the Islamic Republic".
The woman, initially arrested in 2016 and released from prison last month after serving a five-year sentence, was also given a one-year travel ban.
This was reported by his lawyer, Hojjat Kermani.
Interviewed by the BBC, the woman's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, has in turn confirmed the new sentence, denouncing it "clearly" as the result of a "negotiating tactic" Iranian authorities decided to him to
use his wife as a bargaining chip
is on the table of the claim of an old debt for military supplies that Tehran has contested for many years in London, and on that of the possible mending of the international agreement on its nuclear program abandoned at the time by the US.
Nazanin, an employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in 2016 during a visit to her home country.
"Cruel, inhumane and totally unjustified". Boris Johnson
returns to the new sentence of one year in prison inflicted on Tehran against the Anglo-Iranian citizen and raises the tone. While identical words are spoken by his foreign minister, Dominic Raab, in a statement to the House of Commons. Meanwhile, Amnesty International in turn condemns the verdict of Iran and asks London to respond in kind. While former minister Jeremy Hunt complains that the Johnson government has not yet resolved the issue of an old debt to Tehran for military supplies not delivered in 1979.