British-Iranian aid worker has also been banned from leaving country for a year, her lawyer has said

An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced the British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term and banned her from leaving the country for a year, her lawyer has said.

“Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and a one year ban from leaving the country on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” Hojjat Kermani told the Emtedad news website on Monday.

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