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\nLONDON
\nThe UK government summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday after news that imprisoned British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to be recalled to court in Iran, the Foreign Office said. British authorities conveyed their grave concerns to Hamid Baeidinejad and called for Iran to end Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe\u2019s arbitrary detention. \u201cWe have made it clear to the Iranian ambassador that his country\u2019s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is unjustified and unacceptable, and is causing an enormous amount of distress,\u201d the Foreign Office said.
\nA project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the dual national was arrested in April 2016 at Tehran airport as she prepared to fly back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit. She was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran\u2019s clerical establishment.
\nHer family and the foundation deny the charge. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily released from jail in March in response to concerns about the spread of Covid-19 in Iran\u2019s prisons but her movement is restricted and she is barred from leaving the country. She was told of a new charge in September, Iranian state television reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TLTP LONDON The UK government summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday after news that imprisoned British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to be recalled to court in Iran, the Foreign Office said. British authorities conveyed their grave concerns to Hamid Baeidinejad and called for Iran to end Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe\u2019s arbitrary detention. \u201cWe have made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n