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Bethan McKernan

Dual British-Iranian citizen 'sentenced to five years in prison'

A woman with dual British-Iranian citizenship has been sentenced to five years in prison, Iranian media has said.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced on security charges by Tehran prosecutors, a news outlet affiliated with the country's judiciary reported on Sunday. 

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the news agency's charitable arm.

She was first detained in April 2016 while trying to leave the country with her toddler daughter, Gabriella.

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