NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in prison on charges of “propaganda activities against the regime” in Iran.
The UK-Iranian national is also banned from leaving the country for one year for participating in a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in London in 2009, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website.
“Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and one year ban from leaving the country on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” Mr Kermani said following the ruling.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters he thought the sentencing was “wrong”.
He said: “We will have to study the detail of what the Iranian authorities are saying.
“I don’t think it’s right at all that Nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in jail. I think that it was wrong.
“I think it’s wrong that she’s there in the first place
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