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Iran indicts three dual nationals including Briton, reports say
Source: The Guardian
Iran indicts three dual nationals including Briton, reports say
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Monday 11 July 2016 12.49 BST
Iran has reportedly indicted three dual nationals currently behind bars in the country, including a British-Iranian woman who has been held in solitary confinement for more than three months.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the news agency’s charitable arm, was arrested in early April in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards at Imam Khomeini airport, where she and her 22-month-old daughter, Gabriella, had been about to board a flight back to the UK.
On Monday local news agencies quoted Tehran’s prosecutor general, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, as saying that she along with Homa Hoodfar, an Canadian-Iranian professor of social anthropology, and Siamak Namazi, an American-Iranian businessman, had been formally charged.
The exact charges they are facing have not yet been revealed. All three were arrested separately in the past year. Their cases “have been referred for processing to court”, according to the prosecutor general.
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Monday 11 July 2016 12.49 BST
Iran has reportedly indicted three dual nationals currently behind bars in the country, including a British-Iranian woman who has been held in solitary confinement for more than three months.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the news agency’s charitable arm, was arrested in early April in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards at Imam Khomeini airport, where she and her 22-month-old daughter, Gabriella, had been about to board a flight back to the UK.
On Monday local news agencies quoted Tehran’s prosecutor general, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, as saying that she along with Homa Hoodfar, an Canadian-Iranian professor of social anthropology, and Siamak Namazi, an American-Iranian businessman, had been formally charged.
The exact charges they are facing have not yet been revealed. All three were arrested separately in the past year. Their cases “have been referred for processing to court”, according to the prosecutor general.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/11/iran-indicts-three-dual-nationals-including-briton-reports-say