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Iran released British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, removing her ankle tag after a five-year prison sentence, but she has been cited again in court on another charge, her lawyer and a parliamentarian said.
She was imprisoned for conspiring to overthrow the clerical establishment.
“She was pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader last year, but spent the last year of her tenure under house arrest with electronic shackles attached to her feet. Now they are released,” Hojjat Kermani told an Iranian website. “She has been released.”
Iran’s judiciary was not immediately available to comment on the launch.
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab welcomed her release but said Iran’s continued treatment of her remains “intolerable”.
Tulip Siddiq, a Labor MP from the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency where Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family lives, said she had spoken to Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family and they had been told they had removed the tag from the ankle, but that she was summoned to court again. .
“I have contacted Nazanin’s family. Some news: 1) Fortunately, they removed the ankle tag. Her first trip will be to see her grandmother. 2) Less positive: she has been summoned to court again next Sunday, “Ms. Siddiq said on Twitter.
Kermani said a hearing for Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s second case had been scheduled for March 8.
“In this case, she is accused of propaganda against the Islamic Republic system for participating in a rally in front of the Iranian embassy in London in 2009 and giving an interview to the Persian television channel BBC at the same time,” Kermani said.
But he hoped that “this case will be closed at this stage, considering the previous investigation.”
Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 while preparing to return to Britain with her daughter after a family visit.
She was later sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the clerical establishment in Iran.
His family and the foundation, a charity that operates independently of the Thomson Reuters media firm and its Reuters news subsidiary, deny the charge.
She was released from jail in March last year and placed under house arrest in Tehran in response to concerns about the spread of Covid-19 in Iran’s prisons, but her movements were restricted and she was prohibited from leaving the country.
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