{"id":115068,"date":"2023-12-13T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=115068"},"modified":"2023-12-13T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:22:55","slug":"austrian-national-accused-in-uk-over-iran-tv-terror-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/12\/13\/austrian-national-accused-in-uk-over-iran-tv-terror-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian National Accused in UK Over Iran TV ‘Terror Plot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 LONDON \u2014 <\/span>An Austrian national went on trial Monday in London for allegedly spying for a group that may have been preparing to attack an Iranian TV station in the British capital.<\/p>\n

Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, who is originally from Chechnya, was detained by counterterrorism officers in west London on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n

He was charged with possession of records containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. He pleaded not guilty to the charges at a previous hearing.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer told a jury that Dovtaev boarded a plane from Vienna to London to gather “hostile reconnaissance” on a building occupied by the Persian-language channel Iran International.<\/p>\n

The channel’s journalists had reported on alleged human rights violations in the country.<\/p>\n

“The prosecution’s case is that he was carrying out hostile reconnaissance,” de la Poer said in his opening speech at the Old Bailey court in central London.<\/p>\n

“The very fact that the defendant went to collect this information shows that planning by others was already under way,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Iranian government declared Iran International a terrorist organization after it reported on protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.<\/p>\n

She died in September last year after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.<\/p>\n

Amini’s death triggered months of nationwide demonstrations under the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom.”<\/p>\n

“The prosecution’s case is that as a result of the Iranian authorities’ attitude towards Iran International, the organization and its employees all became targets for violent reprisals,” de la Poer said.<\/p>\n

“As we shall come to see, there is other evidence as well which demonstrates that the defendant’s visit was the most recent in a sequence of such visits by others unknown.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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