When Iran International TV “reluctantly” closed its studios in West London because of death threats against its journalists, British-Iranian journalist and human rights activist Vahid Beheshti decided it was time to take a fight to UK’s parliament.
In February, the media organisation was forced to move its broadcasting to Washington DC after noting that “threats had grown to the point that it was felt it was no longer possible to protect the channel’s staff, other employees”.
Mr Beheshti, himself a journalist with another broadcasting service, DORRTV – a news service that often publishes stories of political prisoners in Iran and the regime’s human rights abuses — says the level of foreign interference was so shocking that he decided to set up camp opposite the entrance to the Foreign Office in central London and begin a hunger strike.
