(Iran International) Iran International on Tuesday filed an urgent appeal with United Nations experts urging them to take action against Iran over serious risks to the lives and safety of their journalists worldwide and relatives inside Iran.
Over the past six weeks, the Iranian authorities have intimidated and threatened 45 journalists and 315 of their family members with death unless they stop working for Iran International by specific deadlines, Iran International said in a statement.
All of those deadlines given by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security have now passed, it added.
Iran International is a London-based Persian-language broadcaster and multilingual digital news operation that is a key source of news in Iran amid a closely policed media environment inside the country.
