British-Iranian woman denied final jail appeal
A British-Iranian mother who has been imprisoned in Tehran for over a year lost her final appeal on Monday.
LONDON, England (Kurdistan24) - A British-Iranian mother who has been imprisoned in Tehran for over a year lost her final case appeal on Monday.
Nazanine Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, was arrested at an airport on April 3, 2016, upon returning from a vacation visiting her family.
Her two-year-old daughter Gabriella was also banned from leaving the country to be with her father and is looked after by family in Iran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, sentenced to five years in prison on "secret charges," but Iranian media reports she was convinced of "soft toppling" of the Iranian government.
The charity worker has maintained her innocence. Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have raised her case with their counterparts in Iran.
The husband Richard Ratcliffe, 38, said: "We have had two secret trials and now a closed panel review."
"But it is still nonsense that even at this stage Nazanin still does not have firm details of the charges against her."
He added: "As her husband, I can say Nazanin is innocent until I am blue in the face."
"I have spent a year doing it. But it makes a clear difference that the government hasn't.
"It indulges the whispers."