Two journalists working for Iran International, a Persian-language television channel based in London, have received death threats from Tehran, the channel’s owner reported Monday.
“Iranian-British journalists working in the UK have received death threats from the Revolutionary Guards” (Tehran’s ideological army), Volant Media said in a statement.
According to the group, two journalists received “credible warnings and threats”what prompted the London police to “officially inform the two journalists that these threats pose an immediate, credible and significant risk to their lives and that of their families”🇧🇷
According to the Volant Media group, “other journalists from Iran International were informed of these threats directly by the Metropolitan Police.”
The television channel reports on the protests in Iran since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman, who died three days after she was arrested by police in Tehran for violating the dress code in the Islamic Republic. republic, which requires women to wear a veil.
The protests — on a scale not seen in the country in the past three years — were violently suppressed, with a toll on the order of nearly 200 deaths, according to non-governmental organizations.
Source: DN
