Another year of torture
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced to a further year in prison and a one-year travel ban after being found guilty of propaganda against the regime in Iran.
Her lawyer said she was accused of taking part in a protest in London 12 years ago and speaking to the BBC Persian service.
Iran doesn’t have jurisdiction over what people do in London.
The British-Iranian charity worker was first jailed in Tehran in 2016.
She has always denied the spying charges levelled against her.
Confirming the latest sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said the court’s decision was a bad sign and “clearly a negotiating tactic” by the Iranian authorities – who are in the middle of discussions over the country’s nuclear activities.
Next they’ll be cutting off bits of her as a “negotiating tactic.”
A medical evaluation carried out for the human rights charity Redress recently found Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and obsessive stress disorder due to “traumatising experiences in the prisons of Iran” and the uncertainty about her fate.
She told doctors that, during solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence in 2016, she was interrogated – often while blindfolded – for eight to nine hours a day.
Nasty god in charge of that theocracy.
