A London-based Iranian woman, who worked as an artistic affairs officer with the British council, were forgiven of espionage charges by the Supreme court of Iran and came to the UK after three years of Prison on January 12.

The reason for her espionage charges:

She is a 34-year-old Iranian citizen who worked for five years by the British Council “to help greater gratefulness of Iranian civilisation in the UK, Like by supporting translations of Iranian books into English.”

According to sources, the reason for her arrest was the authorities in the country targeted people with British connections when she visited her relatives in Tehran in 2018.

Furthermore, in 2019, Amiri was condemned to 10 years in prison on spying charges after she declined to become an informant for the Iranian intelligence service.

After her condemned in 2019, Amiri demanded justice from the chief justice ‘Ebrahim Raisi’, and then the president-elect requested him to investigate the false charges against her.

In her letter, she wrote, “In light of the unlawful actions in the procedure of my case and the insult which I faced and my family faced, for that, I am writing to request Your Excellency to carry out an investigation.”

The centre for Human Rights translated the letter.

Iran’s supreme court exculpated her in August, and she returned to Britain this week only after the travel ban associated with her actual arrest was lifted.

According to the statement by British Council on January 12 that “We always denied the original charges against her.

Furthermore, they added that “We are very proud of her work in London offices as an art programme officer and supporting the Iranian culture in the UK. This is the work that reflects the value of cross-border cultural collaboration.”

However, Amiri is not the first person who was arrested in Iran allegedly over their British connections.

In the past Iranian authorities targeted people who had dual citizenship or had connections with western.