Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British aid worker who had been detained by Iranian authorities for the last six years on espionage charges, was released on Wednesday, local authorities said.

UK national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, held in Iran for six years on espionage charges, released

British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq said on Tuesday that aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's British passport was returned to her. "I am very pleased to say that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been given her British passport back," Siddiq, who is the member of parliament for where Zaghari-Ratcliffe used to live in London, said on Twitter.

Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gets her passport back, may be released by Iran

An appeals court in Iran on Saturday upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as per her lawyer who was quoted by an Iranian news website. An Iranian court had sentenced Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a new term in jail in April. She faced charges of propaganda against Iran's ruling system. The new sentence came just a month after she finished a prior five-year sentence.

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