Iran: Iranian-British Nazanine Zagheri-Ratcliffe is free
Nazanine Zagheri-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016. Free Nazanin campaign / AFP / File
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Iranian-British Nazanine Zagheri-Ratcliffe is now free, his lawyer has announced.
She served five years in prison for action against national security.
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With our correspondent in Tehran
,
Siavosh Ghazi
For a year, the Iranian-British had been under house arrest at his parents' house.
She wore an electronic bracelet that limited her movements to less than 300 meters from the family home.
According to her lawyer, her bracelet was removed this Sunday morning, since she has finished her five-year prison sentence.
But she must appear before a new court for propaganda against the power.
However, her lawyer did not say whether she was banned from leaving Iranian territory or not.
She was sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.
Arrested with her daughter
She was arrested at Tehran airport in 2016, along with her daughter, in the case of a legal battle between London and Tehran, which is demanding $ 550 million from the British authorities. over 40 years ago by the former imperial regime to Britain for the purchase of weapons.
Several foreigners and bi-nationals, including a 35-year-old Frenchman and Franco-Iranian
Fariba Adelkhah
, as well as Iranian-Americans are being held in Iranian prisons.
Others, notably the French researcher Roland Marchal, were released during prisoner exchanges.
For his part, the British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab "
welcomed
" in a tweet the withdrawal of Nazanine Zagheri-Ratcliffe's electronic bracelet, adding however that "
the treatment that Iran continues to inflict on him is intolerable
".
Nazanine Zaghari-Ratcliffe "
must be allowed to return to the United Kingdom as soon as possible to find her family
", he insisted.
We welcome the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle tag, but Iran's continued treatment of her is intolerable.
She must be allowed to return to the UK as soon as possible to be reunited with her family
- Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) March 7, 2021
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