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The husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained in Iran for more than four years said Wednesday that she has been summoned to a new court session, warning that she could be returned to prison.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was due to attend a court hearing in Tehran on Monday, according to her husband, Richard Ratcliffe. She added that she was asked to pack her belongings in a bag, as they would take her back to prison after the session.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016 and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of conspiring to overthrow the Iranian government. He flatly denies the accusations.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband and daughter (Archives)
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested during a family vacation with her young daughter. He worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency.
She was placed under house arrest last March following the release of thousands of prisoners due to the Corona virus outbreak in Iran.
Ratcliffe says his wife is being held for “political pressure” in a multi-million dollar dispute between Britain and Iran over the sale of tanks in the 1970s.
He added in a statement: “We do not know what will happen on Monday, we do not know to what extent and when they will implement their threat of prison.”
He continued: “But we know that the Revolutionary Guards are sending signals to the British government. We also know that they are hinting that this may take a long time.”
