DUBAI: British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was tried on a new charge of making"propaganda against the system" at Iran's Revolutionary court on Sunday , her lawyer said, one week after she completed a five-year jail sentence.
Her family and the foundation, a charity that operates independently of media firm Thomson Reuters and its news subsidiary Reuters, deny the charge. "Zaghari-Ratcliffe was fine and calm at the court session," he told Reuters."I am very hopeful that she will be acquitted."Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who served out most of her five-year sentence in Tehran's Evin prison, was released last March during the coronavirus pandemic and kept under house arrest until last Sunday. The authorities removed her ankle tag but immediately summoned her to court again on the other charge.
"It is incomprehensible that she faces further trauma as punishment for crimes that she did not commit," he said.
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