UK PM Boris Johnson lashes out as Iran extends jail sentence of British-Iranian charity worker
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has to spend another year in prison after completing a five-year sentence in Tehran in March over propaganda charges
- British PM Boris Johnson slammed the move, saying his government would ‘redouble our efforts’ to get her home

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, completed a five-year sentence in Tehran in March, after being accused of plotting against the state, a charge she strenuously denies. A court has now given her another one-year jail term and a one-year ban on leaving Iran, the BBC reported.
Johnson said his government would “redouble our efforts” to get her home with her husband and young daughter in London. “I don’t think it is right at all that Nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in jail,” he said in a broadcast interview on Monday.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the decision “totally inhumane and wholly unjustified”.

Nazanin’s lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, said she was put on trial for “participating in a rally outside the Iranian embassy in London in 2009”. He added she was “sentenced to one year in prison and a one year ban on leaving the country”.
“The verdict is still preliminary and we are appealing within the legal deadline of 20 days from today,” Hojjat said.