Iran sentences Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to further one-year jail term

British-Iranian aid worker has also been banned from leaving country for a year, her lawyer has said

An Iranian court has sentenced the British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term and banned her from leaving the country for a year after, according to her lawyer.

She was found guilty of spreading propaganda against the regime, the court said, after she attended a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in 2009 and spoke to a BBC Persian journalist at the gathering.

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