Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is under pressure over his gaffe (WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family
The British mother jailed in Iran is to appear in court in December on new charges of creating propaganda against the state. This new case could double her initial five-year sentence.
These latest charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 38-year-old mother, were raised after Boris Johnson mistakenly suggested that she had been training journalists in Tehran when she was arrested for being a spy last April.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, pictured with her daughter Gabriella, could have her sentence doubled from five to ten years after the Foreign Secretary wrongly said she had been in Iran training journalists (file photo)
The Foreign Secretary's comments were viewed by the Iranian judiciary as proof of her guilt. This was despite the fact that both her employers, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and her family had repeatedly maintained that she was on holiday when she was seized.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian, was warned about the new case in a court session on November 4 even though she has already served 14 months of her initial 5-year sentence.
She will now appear in court on December 10.
Nazanin with her husband Richard Ratcliffe (Image: PA)
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