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Summoning a British Iranian Detainee to Court
The repression by the Iranian authorities continues, and the most recent episode is what the husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained in Iran for more than four years said, on Wednesday, that she had been summoned to a new judicial session and he warned that she would be returned to prison.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was asked to attend a court hearing in Tehran on Monday, according to her husband, Richard Ratcliffe. She added that she asked her to pack her belongings in a bag, as they would take her back to prison after the session.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been arrested in Iran since 2016 and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of conspiring to overthrow the Iranian government. He strongly denies the charges.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested during a family vacation with her young daughter. He worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic 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 pound dispute between Britain and Iran over the sale of tanks in the 1970s.
“We do not know what will happen on Monday, we do not know to what extent and when they will implement their threat of imprisonment,” he added in a statement.
“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,” according to the Associated Press.
