LONDON: The husband of British-Iranian prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said she has more hope for her eventual release after a British Council employee was freed after three years of jail in Iran under spying charges.

The British Council announced that Aras Amiri successfully appealed her case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. She has since returned to the UK.

Amiri was an artistic affairs officer in Iran, but was arrested in Tehran in 2018 while visiting family.