(National-UAE) A charity founded by Zakir Naik, a television personality whose Peace TV stations were fined in the UK for broadcasting hate speech, has been shut down due to misconduct.
UK charity watchdog the Charity Commission took action against Islamic Research Foundation International after an investigation into its funding of television channels that were fined by British media regulator Ofcom.
India-born Mr Naik ran two television stations, Peace TV and Peace TV Urdu, which were fined £300,000 in 2020 by Ofcom for broadcasting hate speech and incitement to commit murder.
They were funded by IRFI, which gave the stations more than £3.6 million ($4.48m).
Both stations gave up their licences in 2019 and no longer broadcast in Britain.
