An Iranian cancer researcher with alleged links to a hardline militia in the Islamic republic says he was denied entry to the United States and deported with his family. Mohsen Dehnavi had flown to the US with his wife and three small children to conduct postdoctoral research at Boston Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University. … Read more
Iran confirmed Wednesday upholding a five-year sentence for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman accused of sedition who has been in jail in the country for more than a year. “She had appealed and the appeals court reviewed her request,” Tasnim news agency quoted Tehran province’s justice chief Gholam Hossein Esmaeili as saying. “The appeals court … Read more
A British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran after being accused of sedition has seen her appeal rejected by the country’s supreme court, her family said on Monday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given a five-year jail term in September for participating in anti-regime protests in 2009. After losing an initial appeal in January, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld her … Read more