Report: Iran arrests BBC staff
Iranian state television is reporting that authorities have arrested five people for working for the BBC's Farsi-language service.
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Iranian state television is reporting that authorities have arrested five people for working for the BBC’s Farsi-language service.
Monday’s report on the channel’s website says the group provided the British Broadcasting Corp. with video and negative news reports on Iran, but didn’t identify them by their full names.
Iran has now blocked the channel and accused it, alongside the British government, of instigating the mass protests that broke out after Iran’s disputed presidential election in 2009.
Both deny the accusation.
BBC’s Persian channel was launched in 2009, aimed at the 100 million Persian speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It has been freely available to anyone with a satellite dish or cable connection in the region.
Source: Associated Press
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They are independent film makers, not reporters. There are six of them. More on the BBC Mid East website.
More ransom money for the regime… ca ching
Note to BBC Farsi:
1. Make sure suicide pills are mandatory for reporters who work for you, so they won’t have to face torture/imprisonment for long.
2. Fire the five reporters who just got arrested. Besides, their careers were f***ed the moment they got arrested.
3. Rider to #2: make sure those reporters get their suicide medicine now. I don’t care how you do it, make sure it gets to them.
4. If one of those reporters was an Aussie, remind Prime Minister Julia Gillard to tell that reporter’s family and friends, he/she’s f***ed. And no, no way in hell Dick Smith are you to get a legal expert to fork over money to these terrorists, like you did last time (as seen on a certain ACA story I saw weeks ago).
Isn’t clear they are reporters.
Hmm.. scary..Will they be executed?