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Prayers ‘redoubled’ as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is sentenced to further year in prison

PRAYERS for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe are being “redoubled” after the news that she has been sentenced to a further year in prison in Iran, her parish priest, the Revd Jonathan Kester, said

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