Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran sentence nears end, but release uncertain

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sentence ends on March 7, but her husband tells Al Jazeera it would be a ‘miracle’ if she is back in the UK soon.

London, United Kingdom – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband has said he is “sceptical” she will be able to return to the United Kingdom soon, despite her prison sentence in Iran entering its final few days. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman, was arrested in March 2016 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport while travelling back to the UK, accompanied by her young daughter at the end of a visit to her parents’ home in Iran. The 43-year-old was later convicted of espionage and plotting to overthrow the Iranian government – charges she has consistently denied – and was imprisoned in the capital’s Evin Prison.