“I was accused of a total of 52 criminal offenses, of which three were capital crimes – espionage, blasphemy, and corruption on earth,” she says. “So I was sentenced to death.”
But had the British-Iranian charity worker known that just four months earlier, another young woman was secretly detained in the country on similarly spurious charges of spying for the UK Government, she may have thought twice about the trip with her husband and young daughter in spring 2016.
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