British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab on Sunday March 7 demanded the return "as soon as possible" to the United Kingdom of Iranian-British Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has just finished serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran but sees himself summoned again next Sunday by Iranian justice.
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British MP for her constituency Tulip Siddiq, in contact with her family, tweeted on Sunday that her electronic bracelet had been taken off her, adding, however, that the Iranian-British had "been summoned to court once again" on the following Sunday, showering the hopes of those close to her to see her return to the United Kingdom.
Dominic Raab "welcomed" in a tweet the withdrawal of the bracelet, adding however that "the treatment that Iran continues to inflict on him is intolerable."
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe "must be allowed to return to the UK as soon as possible to find his family," he insisted.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested with her daughter in April 2016 in Iran, where she had just visited her family, and then sentenced to five years in prison, which ended on Sunday.
Accused of having sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran, which she disputes, this employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation - the philanthropic arm of the Canada-British news agency of the same name - has spent several years in prison of Evin, in Tehran.
In the spring, she obtained a temporary exit permit under an electronic bracelet, due to the new coronavirus pandemic, and had been placed under house arrest with her parents.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is the subject of a second legal proceeding in Iran, accused of disseminating propaganda against the regime, but his trial was postponed in early November, without any new date having been communicated to him until then. "My client's hearing for her second case, where she is accused of propaganda against the regime, has been set for March 14," her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Iranian news agency ISNA, confirming that her first sentence "Ended today" and that "her electronic bracelet has been removed".