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Boris Johnson has been accused of presiding over a failure of British diplomacy amid fears Iran will send detained aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to jail.
The British-Iranian citizen was on Monday handed a one-year sentence and is banned from leaving the country for a further year after being found guilty of “propaganda against the system”.
Her lawyer said the charge stemmed from her attendance at a 2009 protest outside Iran’s embassy in London.
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Her husband Richard Ratcliffe labelled his wife s treatment torture and on Tuesday warned the government needed to take a tougher line with Iran or her release would likely be delayed until 2023.
LONDON: Iran has set trial dates for British-Iranian labor rights activist Mehran Raoof and German-Iranian national Nahid Taghavi, who are due to appear before judges on Wednesday in separate cases, the UK-based newspaper The Guardian reported. Raoof, 64, a former teacher in London, has been held in solitary confinement for more than five months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison after he was secretly recorded talking about politics in a cafe, human rights campaigners have revealed. Taghavi, 66, a retired architect who has diabetes, was arrested last October during a crackdown on women’s and labor rights campaigners. She has also been held in solitary confinement at Evin and will be tried before the revolutionary court, her daughter, Miriam, told The Guardian.
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A high court hearing designed to resolve the UKâs non-payment of a £400m debt to Iran has been postponed again, leaving the families of dual nationals detained in Iran distraught since they believe the debt is critical to their release of loved ones.
Neither Iran nor the UK would explain why the court hearing â scheduled for Tuesday â had been postponed.
Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is still held in Tehran despite completing a five-year sentence, said he would be demanding an explanation for the postponement from the foreign secretary Dominic Raab. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing the threat of a second sentence and was told a month ago by the Iranian courts she would hear in seven working days whether she would face a second spell behind bars after serving five years in jail. She is out on bail in Tehran, but not allowed to leave the country.