TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced a British-Iranian wo­­m­an accused of trying to overthrow the cleric-run gov­e­rnment to five years in prison, a news website affiliated with the judiciary reported on Sunday.

Mizan Online quoted a prosecutor as saying the sentence against Nazanin Zag­hari-Ratcliffe has been finalised. The prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, did not elaborate.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reu­ters Foundation, the news agency’s charitable arm, was detained in April 2016 while trying to leave the country with her toddler daughter, who remains in Iran with family.

Published in Dawn January 23rd, 2017

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