Family of UK resident jailed in Iran urge No 10 to secure her release
Family of UK resident jailed in Iran urge No 10 to secure her release
The family of a UK resident detained in Iran on spying charges have urged the UK government to do more to secure her release after a 10-year prison sentence against her was upheld without a hearing.
Aras Amiri, 33, a British Council employee, was jailed in May, almost a year after she was arrested while visiting her ailing paternal grandmother in Tehran.
A news site in Iran reported on Monday that an appeal against her sentence had been rejected.
Her cousin Dr Mohsen Omrani, a medical researcher based in Canada, saidthe family had been informed on Sunday about a decision he said had been taken without a proper hearing.
The family of a UK resident detained in Iran on spying charges have urged the UK government to do more to secure her release after a 10-year prison sentence against her was upheld without a hearing.
Aras Amiri, 33, a British Council employee, was jailed in May, almost a year after she was arrested while visiting her ailing paternal grandmother in Tehran.
A news site in Iran reported on Monday that an appeal against her sentence had been rejected.
Her cousin Dr Mohsen Omrani, a medical researcher based in Canada, saidthe family had been informed on Sunday about a decision he said had been taken without a proper hearing.
Omrani said the family feared Amiri was being used as bargaining chip at a time of growing tension between Iran and the UK and US.
She is being held in Evin prison along with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Iranian-British citizen serving a five-year sentence for alleged spying.
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Read more at: The Guardian
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