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An Iranian court has upheld the five-year prison sentence of a woman with dual British-Iranian citizenship, Iranian media has said. | An Iranian court has upheld the five-year prison sentence of a woman with dual British-Iranian citizenship, Iranian media has said. |
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced on national security charges by Tehran prosecutors in September last year, although the precise reasons for her arrest have not been made public. | |
A news outlet affiliated with the country's judiciary reported on Sunday that her original sentence had been upheld by an appeals court. | |
Ms Zaghari-Radcliffe is being held at Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where many political prisoners have reported being subject to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment. | |
In November her husband, Richard Radcliffe, said that his wife was "at breaking point" and on a hunger strike to protest her incarceration. | |
Before her arrest Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe worked in London as a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the news agency's charitable arm. | |
She was first detained in April 2016 while trying to leave the country after a family visit with her then 22-month-old daughter, Gabriella. Gabriella's passport was also seized, and the toddler remains with her maternal grandparents in Iran. | |
Iran's legal system does not recognise dual nationality and those detained cannot recieve consualar assistance. | |
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