Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail sentence in Tehran, has been told to expect another conviction after she went to court to face new charges, her husband has said. During her first trial, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency, was accused of running “a BBC Persian online journalism course” and seeking a “soft overthrow” of the Islamic Republic. Ratcliffe said his wife denied the new charges against her, but the judge, Abolghassem Salavati, told her she should expect to be convicted. Johnson has since apologised for mistakenly saying she was training journalists in Iran, while in fact, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on holiday. “The threatened court case has become real, the refusal of her lawyer is not a good omen of justice,” he said on Monday.

Source: The Guardian May 21, 2018 14:00 UTC