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| Iran court upholds 10-year jail term for British Council staffer |
| 2019-08-28 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Iranian appeals court has upheld a 10-year jail sentence against British Council staffer Aras Amiri for "cultural infiltration", the judiciary front man said on Tuesday. Amiri was "sentenced to 10 years in jail... and she is already serving her term. This verdict has been upheld by the court," front man Gholamhossein Esmaili said, quoted by the judiciary’s Mizan Online website. "This person... was identified by us because of her cultural infiltration in society through arts and her widespread activities," he added. Mizan Online reported Amiri’s original sentence on May 13, saying she had "made a straightforward confession." At the time, Esmaili said she had been tasked with drawing up and managing cultural "infiltration" projects. Amiri, a Iranian national who had been living in London, was arrested in 2018 during a trip to visit relatives in Iran. Iranian authorities shut down the British Council’s office in Tehran more than a decade ago for what Esmaili described as "illegal activities." Related: Gholamhossein Esmaili: 2019-08-05 Resident of Canada Escapes From Jail in Iran, Returns Home Gholamhossein Esmaili: 2019-07-03 Iran says several suspected U.S. spies face possible death sentences Gholamhossein Esmaili: 2018-02-12 Canadian-Iranian dies in Iranian custody, officials claim he committed suicide |
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