23/01/2024
"ShoutOut" and other community media send their solidarity this week to Iran International, a dissident television station broadcasting impartial news and information into the highly controlled clerico-fascist state of Iran, where free media is brutally suppressed. The Independent Newspaper explains that a Chechen born radical Islamist, one Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev was found guilty of spying on the London offices and studios of the TV channel, with a view to committing an act of terrorism against it. Iran International spokesman Adam Baillie said its journalists would not be “cowed by threats”. He said: “This trial was a reminder of the threats journalists and news organisations face. Journalism is under attack across the world from those who seek to suppress media freedom. We will not be cowed by threats. Our journalists will continue to provide the independent, uncensored news the people of Iran deserve."
