Reuters Foundation staffer loses appeal in Iran
Thomson Reuters Foundation project manager Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran, her family told the BBC. Her Iranian lawyer had informed that there had been no court hearing but the lawyer had been informed about the outcome of the appeal.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed in 2016 accused of plotting against the regime. She had been visiting her parents with her young daughter and was arrested when she was about to leave to country. In April, she was sentenced to still one more year for spreading propaganda and she was banned from leaving the country.
The last year of her first term she has spent on parole in her parents home in Tehran. She has an Iranian background but is also a British citizen,
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in a statement said: “We are doing all we can to help Nazanin get home to her young daughter and family and I will continue to press Iran on this point”.
Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, told the BBC she fears to be sent back to jail after the appeal has been rejected. He has earlier said he thinks his wife is a hostage over an old debt of GBP 400 million for a Britain-Iran deal that was never fulfilled.
Moonshot News is an independent European news website for all IT, Media and Advertising professionals, powered by women and with a focus on driving the narrative for diversity, inclusion and gender equality in the industry.
Our mission is to provide top and unbiased information for all professionals and to make sure that women get their fair share of voice in the news and in the spotlight!
We produce original content, news articles, a curated calendar of industry events and a database of women IT, Media and Advertising associations.
