{"id":1016,"date":"2017-04-26T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:20:08","slug":"iran-confirms-rejecting-appeal-by-held-british-iranian-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirms rejecting appeal by held British-Iranian woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/n\/Nazanin%20Zaghari-Ratcliffe.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"316\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Associated Press &#8211; April 26. 2017<strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran has confirmed that the final appeal by a British-Iranian woman detained in Iran while on a trip with her toddler daughter of having her five-year prison sentence overturned has been denied. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe&#8217;s family earlier said that she learned of the development last weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->The judiciary&#8217;s Mizanonline.ir on Wednesday quoted Gholamhossein Esmaili, head of Tehran&#8217;s justice department, as saying the appeal was rejected and that the &#8220;appeals court approved the verdict by the primary court.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t elaborate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency was detained by security forces in Iran in 2016. Later, she was sentenced on security charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian media have said Zaghari-Ratcliffe was convicted of plotting the &#8220;soft toppling&#8221; of Iran&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran doesn&#8217;t recognize dual nationality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press &#8211; April 26. 2017\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran has confirmed that the final appeal by a British-Iranian woman detained in Iran while on a trip with her toddler daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}