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David Pratt: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and the innocent victims of Iran s hostage diplomacy

IT’S the equivalent of a high-powered game of geopolitical chess in which all too often innocent individuals are played and sacrificed like pawns. Most of us are probably unaware of the extent to which it exists and only when the plight of a high-profile victim appears in the news headlines does it catch our eye. Such is the case of British Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who this week was sentenced by a revolutionary court to a further year in an Iranian prison on top of the five she has already spent incarcerated accused of spying. Her latest additional sentence which also includes a one-year travel ban comes after the charity worker was found guilty of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime after attending a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in London back in 2009.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe handed another prison sentence in Iran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to additional year in Iranian jail

British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on Monday sentenced to an additional year in prison for spreading propaganda against the system . Zaghari-Ratcliffe has already served a five-year prison sentence in Iran for spying, charges her family and employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has always denied. Her lawyer Hojjat Kermani said her second charge was over her 2009 participation in a protest in front of the Iranian embassy in London. She faces a one-year ban on leaving the country. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, has told the BBC they will appeal. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote on Twitter that this is a totally inhumane and wholly unjustified decision.

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