Kenilworth Mayor calls for new positive action from Government in campaign to have British woman released from jail in Iran

Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is nearing the end of her five-year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied.

But she has now been told she will face another trial for a furhter charge.

Nazanin was arrested in 2016 during a holiday visit to show her then baby daughter Gabriella, now aged five, to her parents.

She was imprisoned over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies

Nazanin, a charity worker from London, has suffered declining physical and mental health during her detention and suffered panic attacks.

Before her arrest, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived in London with her husband Richard.

Cllr Dickson has written to Kenilworth and Southam MP Jeremy Wright to see if he can urge the Government to intervene.

In the letter, which he has shared with Kenilworth Weekly News and The Courier he has said: "It’s time for new positive action."

Earlier this year, Nazanin's husband Richard addressed the Warwick District UN Association speaking about his campaign to have his wife released from prison and gather support for his campaign.

More than 80 people attended the event held at Leamington Baptist church on Saturday February 22 to hear Richard give an account of the last four years of trying to have his wife released

Gian Clare, the chairman of local UN Association, said Richard spoke about how Nazanin was arrested and the implications arising from her arrest and having to learn about the working of diplomatic relations between governments with exchanges between the Foreign Office and the Iranian Embassy.