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| Roya Saberi Hegad Nobakht |
An Iranian court has sentenced a British woman and seven others to up to 20 years in jail for crimes including posting comments on Facebook, an opposition website said yesterday.
Roya Saberi Negad Nobakht was arrested during a visit to Shiraz last autumn for comments she had made on her Facebook page, and was last week sentenced to 20 years in jail, the Kaleme website said.
Kaleme, which did not cite a source for its report, said the sentences were delivered last week.
Ms Nobakht, who was said to be "devastated", has dual British-Iranian nationality and had been living with her husband in Stockport, according to media reports.
"She is not doing well," a source said according to The Times. "She is just a housewife and is not an activist. » | Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Friday, May 30, 2014
