Iran has sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in jail, a decision that drew quick condemnation from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
"Iran's decision to sentence Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in prison is cruel, inhumane and wholly unjustified," Johnson tweeted on Monday. “She must be allowed to return to her family in the UK and we will continue to do all we can to get her home.”
An Iranian court convicted Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Monday of propaganda against the Islamic Republic, an accusation linked to her participation in a 2009 demonstration outside Iran’s embassy in London as well as an interview she gave to BBC Persian. The court handed Zaghari-Ratcliffe a one-year prison sentence and a one-year ban on leaving the country, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told an Iranian news site.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, was arrested at Tehran’s airport in April 2016 on her way home to the United Kingdom from a family vacation. After being held in solitary confinement for more than eight months, she was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly plotting to topple the government following a trial rights groups say was a sham.
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