The UK-based channel said two of its journalists received death threats from Iran for covering the protests.
London:
Two British-Iranian journalists working in the UK for an independent Persian-language channel have received “credible” death threats from Iran’s security forces, the channel’s broadcaster said on Monday.
Volant Media, the London-based broadcaster of Iran International TV channel, said in a statement that two of its journalists had received “death threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”, calling it an “alarming escalation” of efforts to suppress independent media.
“These are state-sponsored threats to journalists in the UK,” a spokesperson for Volant Media said.
He said the Revolutionary Guards “cannot be allowed to silence a free press in the UK”.
The channel has been covering anti-regime protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating strict dress rules for women.
Volant Media said the two journalists received a formal “warning of credible threats to their lives” and their families from London’s Metropolitan Police.
Volant Media said the police force had also reported threats to other journalists.
The Met said in a reply to AFP that “we do not comment on matters of protective protection in relation to any specific individual”.
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