The BBC accuses the Iranian government again for the tightening of the campaign of the intimidation of the BBC Persian service journalists and all common action against their neighbors living in that country.
The journalists of that service are faced with the “disturbing increase in the level of persecution of their families, the BBC announced.
The targets are random trials, banned travel, take their passports and threaten them by seizing property, is added.
Journalists who are currently staying in Great Britain and other countries cannot return to Iran, and suffer direct violence and threats to make pressure to stop working, stated in the BBC statement.
“We invite Iranian authorities to immediately stop the intimidation campaign,” said Tim Davie, the Director General of the British Media House.
Tehran did not comment on the charges.
It was also previously claimed that the regime in Iran is conducting illegal actions against journalists abroad.
Then they denied these allegations and accused the BBC to expand false information with the aim of overthrow the regime in Tehran.
The BBC Persian Service monitors almost 22 million people each week, of which 13 million them are in Iran, where it is prohibited.
Due to the claim that the BBC journalists reported in Persian in the previous decade during the previous decade, the BBC was in 2018. and 2022. submitted appeals to the United Nations Human Rights.
But there was “significant and very alarming escalation” recently, they claim from the BBC in the announcement 2. June.
“With lasting threats by personal safety that come from Iranian state actors who work outside the country, journalists of the BBC Persian service now testify to a disturbing increase in the persecution of their families in Iran,” says Davie.
“That persecution is a direct attack on media freedom and human rights. It must be suspended immediately,” he adds.
From the BBC, they say they are preparing a new appeal to the United Nations.
The UN Secretary-General and Special Repensce previously expressed concerns about the treatment of BBC journalists in Iran and warned that harassment, supervision and death threats are not in line with international human rights standards.
(Vijesti.ba)
