Man ‘spied on HQ of London-based TV channel Iran International to help terror plotters’ Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, told security guards outside the channel's headquarters that he was in the area to visit a friend. But he was later arrested by police after he was seen filming the building on his mobile phone, a court was told.

(Sky News) An Austrian man is on trial accused of carrying out “hostile reconnaissance” of a TV station in London that was potentially being targeted for a terrorist attack.

Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev is said to have tried to covertly film security arrangements outside the headquarters of the Persian-language channel Iran International in February.

Prosecutors said the TV station was a potential target for plotters after Iran’s government criticised its coverage of protests in the country following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

Iran’s minister of intelligence later declared the channel a terrorist organisation, making its employees “targets for violent reprisals,” jurors were told.

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