TEHRAN: An Iranian appeals court has upheld a 10-year jail sentence against British Council staffer Aras Amiri for “cultural infiltration,” the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.

Amiri was “sentenced to 10 years in jail... and she is already serving her term. This verdict has been upheld by the court,” spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said, quoted by the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.

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