DUBAI: A detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail in Iran is to face a second trial on new security charges, the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Saturday quoted Tehran Revolutionary Court’s head Musa Ghazanfarabadi as saying.

Nazanin Zaghari-Rat­cliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she was heading back to Britain with her two-year-old daughter after a family visit.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discussed Zaghari-Ratcliffes case with Iranian officials after flying to Tehran in December to try to seek her release.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2018