(Sky News) A Chechen-born man accused of being an “international terrorist” conducting hostile reconnaissance against a dissident Iranian TV station in West London has claimed he was “set up.”
Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, is accused of conducting surveillance on Iran International at the Chiswick Business Park in West London on 11 February this year.
He told the Old Bailey he “simply liked” buildings at the business park and was “in wonder” at the architecture while trying to explain why he had taken a video on his phone in the area.
His visit was said to be the most recent in a sequence of at least three such visits by “others unknown,” beginning in the summer of 2022, following threats from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence against the TV station.
