Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is already serving a five-year sentence; she now faces a further five years in jail on new charges of “propaganda against the regime” PABoris Johnson has been accused of putting a British mother jailed in an Iran at risk of another five years on her sentence after an erroneous testimony to parliament about what she was doing in the country. The foreign secretary told a select committee last week that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, had been training journalists in Iran when she was arrested last year, tried and sentenced to five years in prison. Four days later, on Saturday, she was taken to an unscheduled court hearing in Tehran on charges of “propaganda against the regime” with the threat of five more years. The Iranian judiciary cited Mr Johnson’s remarks as evidence that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had lied in her original defence that she was on holiday, visiting her parents…

Source: The Times November 06, 2017 12:08 UTC