Iran sets Dec. 10 court date for jailed UK aid worker

This file photo shows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (R) posing for a photograph with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella (L). British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran and at the center of a political controversy in Britain has undergone tests for breast cancer as her emotional state worsens, her husband said on November 12, 2017. (AFP/Free Nazanin campaign)
Updated 23 November 2017
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Iran sets Dec. 10 court date for jailed UK aid worker

LONDON: Iran has told jailed aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that she will appear in court on Dec. 10, her husband, Richard said on Thursday.
“She’s been told she will appear in court on Dec. 10,” he told Reuters. He said that he understood she would appear in court charged with spreading propaganda.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced to five years after being convicted by an Iranian court of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. She denies the charges.


Israel bans PA’s Jerusalem affairs minister from entering West Bank

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Israel bans PA’s Jerusalem affairs minister from entering West Bank

  • Ashraf Al-Awar has 72 hours to appeal the decision
  • He was previously banned for 6 months last year

LONDON: Israeli authorities issued a six-month ban on Ashraf Al-Awar, the Palestinian Authority’s minister for Jerusalem affairs, preventing him from entering the occupied West Bank.

The ministry said on Thursday that Israeli authorities issued Al-Awar a ban decision after summoning him for interrogation at the Al-Maskubiya detention center in Jerusalem.

He has 72 hours to appeal the decision, which is part of Israeli policy targeting Palestinian leaders from Jerusalem and restricting the work of national institutions in the city, according to the ministry.

In early 2025, Israel banned Al-Awar from entering the West Bank for six months.