British woman in jail in Iran to face second trial
A detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail in Iran is to face a second trial on new ecurity charges.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she was heading back to Britain with her two-year-old daughter after a family visit.
She was convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, a charge denied by her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that is independent of Thomson Reuters and operates independently of Reuters News.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discussed Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case with Iranian officials after flying to Tehran in December to try to seek her release. "Ghazanfarabadi said the charge against Zaghari in the new case is security-related but did not say whether it was espionage or another charge," Tasnim reported.
"Zaghari is to present an attorney and then the court will convene," Ghazanfarabadi said.
Reuters was unable to determine the identity of the lawyer. Asked for comment by Reuters, Britain's Foreign Office said on Saturday that it would not provide a commentary on "every twist and turn".
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe said it was not clear what the latest charges involved.
Published: by Radio NewsHub