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Iran has postponed the retrial, which was scheduled to begin on Sunday, for the British-Iranian, who has been imprisoned in the Islamic Republic since 2016, Nazinin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, according to her husband.
“Yes, today’s hearing was postponed,” Richard Ratcliffe told AFP in London, adding that his lawyer had been informed that the court would not consider “the case today.”
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, has spent more than four years in prison or under house arrest since she was arrested in the Iranian capital in April 2016 while visiting to meet family members with her daughter.
The website of the news and television agency “Irib News” reported Thursday that she and her lawyer were informed of the new accusation, without giving further details or setting a date for the trial.
Ratcliffe said last week that he would appear in court on Sunday and that it was “increasingly evident” that he had become a “hostage” to the Islamic Republic.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the regime in the Islamic Republic, which she denies.
Tulip Siddiq, a British Labor MP and longtime activist to secure his release, confirmed that the trial had been postponed on Sunday after speaking with Ratcliffe.
“She is relaxed, frustrated, anxious and angry. They treat her again like a bargaining chip,” Siddiq said on Twitter.
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