视频: 伊朗新闻电视台被吊销英国运营执照

引用 刘海明 2012-1-21 13:12

英国电讯局周五决定从卫星删除伊朗国营新闻电视台的讯号。不过伊朗新闻电视台的英语广播仍然可以透过互联网传送。电视台在网页发表声明指当局的决定明显是审查。事件起因是英国电讯局称其未有服从英国广播牌照规定。加上电视台播出一个未经授权的访问被电讯局罚款10万英镑将另行处理。

　　1月21日东方卫视《看东方》播出以上视频内容。

引用 刘海明 2012-1-21 13:08

LONDON — Britain’s media regulator revoked the broadcast license for the Iranian state-owned television network Press TV on Friday, saying the network had failed to address concerns over its editorial independence and had not paid a fine.

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The network, shown here on satellite television, was set to cease broadcasting almost immediately. A “channel unavailable” message was displayed by Sky, the satellite broadcaster that had hosted Press TV, Friday night. It was not immediately clear whether the shutdown was widespread.

The move follows a marked chilling of relations between Britain and Iran after hundreds of Iranian protesters stormed the British Embassy in Tehran last November. Britain closed its embassy in Tehran and expelled all Iranian diplomats in London.

The media regulator, Ofcom, said Friday that the decision followed an unresolved dispute over an interview that Press TV broadcast with the Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari. Mr. Bahari was imprisoned in Iran in June 2009 in the tumult that followed the disputed election, and he was released in October 2009.

The regulator said that the interview had been conducted under duress and that Press TV’s editorial operations were beholden to Tehran, and it fined the network about $155,700. The network proved “unwilling and unable to pay,” Ofcom said in a statement, and had failed to address the issue of its independence.

Press TV said Ofcom had not responded to letters from its chief executive, and it called the move “a blatant example of censorship and in violation of freedom of speech.” It told the BBC that Ofcom was “the media arm of the royal family,” and on its Web site it published anguished comments it said were from viewers outraged at the shutdown. One, who was identified only as Sharon, said the regulator was “obeying their freemason masters and doing what they are told.”

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