二重国籍女性の刑期終了　英、イランに即時釈放要求

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】イランで体制転覆を企てたとして禁錮5年の判決を受け拘束されていた英国・イランの二重国籍の女性が7日、刑期を終えた。英政府は同日、女性の即時釈放を求めたが、女性には裁判所への出廷を命じる新たな召喚状が出ており、先行きは不透明だ。（写真はイラン・テヘラン郊外で、一時的に釈放され娘と再会するナザニン・ザガリラトクリフさん。「フリー・ナザニン」提供）
　女性はナザニン・ザガリラトクリフさん（４２）。刑期の最後の数か月、自宅軟禁とされていたザガリラトクリフさんは、足首に着けられた監視装置が取り外された。これで以前よりも自由に移動ができ、首都テヘランに住む親戚を訪ねることができるようになった。ただザガリラトクリフさんには１４日にイランの裁判所に出廷するよう命令が出ており、即時帰宅を望んでいた家族や友人、支持者らの望みはかなわなかった。
　ドミニク・ラーブ英外相はザガリラトクリフさんの足首の装置が取り外されたことを歓迎したものの、イランによる扱いを「容認できない」と表明。ツイッターで「家族と再会するため、できるだけ早く英国に戻ることが認められなければならない」と訴えた。
　ザガリラトクリフさんは２０１６年の休暇中に拘束され、体制転覆を企てたとしてテヘランで有罪判決を受けたが、一貫して罪を否認している。拘束されていた５年間、ザガリラトクリフさんら二重国籍を持つ人の拘束は、英イラン間の外交問題の中心となっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/03/08-14:55）

The UK government on Sunday called for the immediate release of a British-Iranian woman after her five-year sentence for sedition ended in Tehran.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been under house arrest for months, has had her ankle tag removed, her local MP in London said.
But the 42-year-old dual national now faces another court date in Iran next Sunday, dashing hopes from her family, friends and colleagues of an immediate return home.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government in London welcomed the fact she was no longer electronically tagged.
But he called her treatment by the authorities in the Islamic republic intolerable.
She must be allowed to return to the UK as soon as possible to be reunited with her family, he wrote on Twitter.
- 'Drag on and on' -
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran in 2016 and convicted of plotting to overthrow the regime in Tehran -- accusations she strenuously denied.
But her case, and those of other dual nationals, became the centre of a diplomatic dispute during the five years she has been separated from her husband, Richard, and their young daughter.
Richard Ratcliffe told the BBC on Saturday that the case has the potential to drag on and on, and predicted she would face a new court case.
She had been summoned last September before an Iranian court and notified of a new indictment against her.
But the authorities have yet to provide details of why nor disclose documents on the charges on which she was originally sentenced.
Ratcliffe said his wife, who was working for the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the time, was being held hostage because of a long-running diplomatic dispute between London and Tehran.
London has admitted it owes Iran up to ??300 million ($390 million) over a failed arms deal dating back to the time of the shah of Iran in the 1970s.
MP Tulip Siddiq said Zaghari-Ratcliffe's first trip without her ankle bracelet would be to see her grandmother, but it was not immediate clear if she is under any other restrictions.
In Iran, the news agency ISNA quoted Hojjat Kermani, who was described as her lawyer, as confirming his client's ankle tag had been removed.
He also confirmed that she would face further allegations of propaganda against the system at a revolutionary court on March 14.