The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that Nazanin Zaghari and Anousheh Ashouri were released with humanitarian considerations. Nazanin Zaghari and Anousheh Ashouri who had been jailed in Iran for 6 years on espionage charges were released on Wednesday by Iranian judicial authorities and were handed over to British ...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is sentenced to a further one-year jail term in Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffes lawyer Hojjat Kermani said on Monday that the court found her guilty of making propaganda against the Islamic Republic and has also banned her from leaving the country for a year. Iranian Intelligence authorities arrested Zaghari at the ...

Speaking to IRNA on Sunday, Hojjat Kermani added that Nazanin Zaghariwas freed after the termination of her jail term and her ankle monitor was removed. Today (Sunday) the five-year [prison] sentence of Ms. Zaghari was finished and herankle monitor was removed taking into account that since a year agoshe was under house arrest, carrying an ankle ...

The British government summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday following news that imprisoned British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to be recalled to court in Iran, the Foreign Office said. The British authorities conveyed their grave concern to the diplomat, Hamid Baeidinejad, and called for Iran to end what they described as ...

Irans foreign minister says if the British government makes payment of Irans outstanding debt conditional on the release of the dual British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari, it would be tantamount to stealing the Iranian nations money. Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in a Sundayinterview with a Persian-language newspaperin Tehran, when asked ...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it would be beyond the pale for Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be returned to detention in Iran at this time. He added that Britain was still enagaged in a process of paying back a debt it owns to Iran but that this was not linked but in parallel to the legal case. Theres been ...

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Reuters - A trial of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe scheduled for Sunday in Iran has been postponed, a British lawmaker said on Sunday, citing a conversation with Zaghari-Ratcliffes husband. Member of parliament Tulip Siddiq said in a tweet she had spoken to Richard Ratcliffe and he had told her the trial had been postoned....

Reuters - British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned by an Iranian Revolutionary Court on Tuesday and informed about a new charge, state television reported. Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court summoned Nazanin Zaghari and her designated lawyer this morning and informed her of a new indictment, state television cited ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected reports that have drawn a link between the debt the UK owes to Tehran from the non-delivery of Chieftain tanks ordered decades ago and possible release of Nazanin Zaghari, a dual Iranian-British citizen jailed for espionage. In an interview with IRIB, Saeed Khatibzadeh reacted to the reports that ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour; Debt seen as stumbling block for release of British-Iranians including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has for the first time acknowledged that he is actively seeking to pay a debt to the Iranian government that could finally help to secure the release of British dual nationals including ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Campaigners contrast British-Iranians plight with return of prisoner Michael White to US Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national detained by Iran since 2016, has been told her furlough from prison will be extended beyond the previous cut-off date of early June, according to her lawyer. But she ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: British-Iranian told she can remain on release pending decision on granting clemency The British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been told she can remain out of prison until a decision is made on whether to grant her clemency. She was due to return to jail on Wednesday after being released on ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Lawyers for dual-national tell Foreign Office a personal visit to Tehran is long overdue The Foreign Office has rejected a plea from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for the British ambassador to Iran to visit her in an act of solidarity before Tehran decides whether to return her to jail. Zaghari-Ratcliffes lawyers told ...

Reuters - Irans judiciary has extended British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffes temporary release from jail by another month, her lawyer told state news agency IRNA on Tuesday. In mid-March, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was temporarily released from Tehrans Evin prison for two weeks along with thousands of other prisoners. Zagharis furlough ...

The Guardian | Jedidajah Otte: Spokesperson said on TV her release would be extended but British-Iranian yet to be told Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is waiting to be told whether her temporary release from an Iranian prison is to be extended beyond this weekend, or if she will have to return to complete her five-year sentence on Sunday. The Prosecutors ...

The Guardian - Japanese team reminds Iran of detained translators role following Bam earthquake Japanese government aid workers who worked on a $22.5m medical assistance package to help Iran fight coronavirus are pressing Tehran to make the final steps to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The British-Iranian dual national, who was sentenced ...

Reuters - Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released in Iran for two weeks, her husband said on Tuesday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit. She ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: The Iranian ambassador to the UK says the British government is taking a new approach to the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, adding bilateral talks were taking place over the payment of an outstanding 400m debt owed by the UK to Iran. Hamid Baeidinejad said the two sides were looking at novel ways for the debt ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffes health is improving after fears last week that she had contracted coronavirus while in prison in Tehran. However, her family have said she has not been tested and a promise of temporary release made last week by prison officers has not materialised, causing her deep distress. Many prisoners ...