Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said no more legal avenues wereavailable
A BRITISH-Iranian mum jailed for five years in Iran after being accused of plotting to topple the regime, has lost her final appeal.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, was arrested in Tehran on April 3 2016 trying to return to Britain after visiting family with her daughter Gabriella, two.
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Nazanintook her case to Irans Supreme Court but the sentence was upheld and her husband saidno more legal avenues are available.
In September 2016 Richard Ratcliffe, of Hampstead, North West London said his wife had suffered weight loss, lost hair and became virtually unable to walk since being jailed.
After the latest ruling he said:This extinguishes the last hope we have had of legally overturning a punishment where the crime remains a mystery,
Weve had a year, the legal process is finished, so I think the (British) Government needs to step up, find a way to visit her, say that shes innocent and call for her release publicly.
Zaghari-Ratcliffes husband said she was feeling angry but determined after losing her final appeal and is hoping for intervention from the UK.
Britains foreign ministry said it was deeply concerned by reports the Supreme Court has upheld the sentence and said Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson had raised the case with their Iranian counterparts.
We continue to press the Iranians for access and for due process to be followed, and are ready to help get her daughter back safely to the UK if requested, a spokesman said.
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Irans elite Revolutionary Guards accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of having taken part in the sedition movement of widespread protests that followed the 2009 re-election of former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, charges which she denies.
The couples daughter Gabriella, is being cared for in Tehran by her grandparents, who speak little English.
Gabriella has been able to visit her mother since she was moved from solitary confinement to the womans ward of Tehrans Evin prison.
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