British Council worker Aras Amiri loses appeal against 10-year sentence in Iran
n Iranian woman working for the British Council faces ten years in an Iranian prison after losing her final appeal against espionage charges before Iran’s supreme court. Aras Amiri, a 33-year-old permanent resident of the UK and a student at Kingston University, was arrested in March 2018 while visiting family in Iran and accused of spying for the British government. for “cultural infiltration by the British intelligence services in Iranian internal affairs”. Ms Amiri appealed against the sentence in a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary ...
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