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| - As Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemns reports that British-Iranian dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in jail in Tehran, we look at her five-year ordeal. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is arrested on April 3, 2016, with her 22-month-old daughter Gabriella at the Tehran airport after visiting her family for Iranian New Year. The toddler's British passport is confiscated and she is handed over to her maternal grandparents. Incarcerated at the Evin prison in the Iranian capital, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, then 37, is accused in June of plotting a "soft overthrow" of the Iranian government with the support of foreign intelligence services. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is sentenced to five years in jail on September 9 for taking part in a "sedition movement" in Iran in 2009. The sentence is upheld on appeal in April 2017. In November that year, Boris Johnson, then Britain's foreign minister, commits a faux pas by telling a parliamentary committee that Zaghari-Ratcliffe trained journalists in Iran, a remark that fuels Tehran's accusations. A month later, during a visit to Iran, Johnson presses for her release. In March 7, 2019 London accords diplomatic protection to Zaghari-Ratcliffe, saying her detention does not comply with international law. The following month the Iranian authorities offer to free Zaghari-Ratcliffe if the United States drops accusations against an Iranian woman in jail in Australia. London rejects the offer. Zaghari-Ratcliffe goes on a hunger strike in June that lasts two weeks. In July she is transferred to a hospital's psychiatric ward where she stays for several days. In October little Gabriella returns to London so she can go to school under her father Richard Ratcliffe's care. He has fought for years for his wife's release, says she is being held "hostage" as a part of a sinister political game over money Britain never gave back after cancelling a massive tanks deal paid for by the Shah. In March 2020 Zaghari-Ratcliffe is temporarily released because of the pandemic and placed under house arrest at her parents' home. In September she is hit with a new charge -- spreading propaganda against Tehran. She appears before a judge on November 2 and the trial is adjourned without a date set for resumption. Upon completion of her five-year sentence for sedition last month, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's electronic bracelet is removed. But she is summoned to appear in court on March 14 over the propaganda charge, with reports Monday that she has been sentenced to another year behind bars. fm/ber/fg/jz
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