Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Iranian-British charity worker jailed in Iran, has been told she will appear in court next month accused of spreading propaganda, her husband said on Thursday.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 38-year-old project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 as she was returning to Britain from a family visit with her then one-year-old daughter.

The new court date follows foreign secretary Boris Johnson's statement earlier this month that she had been training journalists during her visit to Iran.

The comments contradicted the position of the British government, as well as Mrs Zaghari Ratcliffe’s family and defence team, and were seized on by Iranian media as evidence of her guilt and that she was involved in spying.

Mr Johnson later apologised and telephoned Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, to make clear that Mrs Zaghari had been on holiday.

"She's been told she will appear in court on Dec. 10,” Richard Ratcliffe said on Thursday. She was initially sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.