The British government has condemned the Iranian regime after British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given a further one-year jail term for spreading “propaganda” against the regime. Zaghari-Ratcliffe completed a five-year sentence in March on spying charges, the last year of which was spent under house arrest due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. Her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told The Associated Press on Monday that she had been given a new jail term on a charge of spreading “propaganda against the system” for participating in a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in London in 2009. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s additional one-year jail term was “totally inhumane and wholly unjustified.” “We continue to call on Iran to release Nazanin immediately so she can return to her family in the UK. We continue to do all we can to support her,” he wrote on Twitter. …
UK Condemns Iran’s ‘Inhumane’ Sentencing of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
April 26, 2021
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