{"id":32267,"date":"2012-01-21T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32267"},"modified":"2012-01-21T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T11:08:15","slug":"iran-press-tv-ofcom-licence-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32267","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom revokes Press TV&#8217;s UK licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom has <a title=\"Journalism.co.uk - Ofcom revokes Iranian state broadcaster's UK licence \" href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/ofcom-revokes-iranian-state-broadcaster-s-uk-license\/s2\/a547556\/\" target=\"_blank\">revoked<\/a>\u00a0the UK licence of Iranian broadcaster Press TV. In\u00a0December Press TV was <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Maziar Bahari on Press TV Ofcom fine\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/12\/02\/maziar-bahari-on-press-tv-ofcom-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\">fined \u00a3100,000<\/a> for\u00a0broadcasting a 2009 interview with journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari, who was then being held in Evin Prison. Press TV has failed to pay the fine. Ofcom also concluded that the station, which featured shows presented by figures such as George Galloway, Yvonne Ridley and Ken Livingstone, was controlled from Tehran, a breach of UK broadcasting regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom has revoked\u00a0the UK licence of Iranian broadcaster Press TV. In\u00a0December Press TV was fined \u00a3100,000 for\u00a0broadcasting a 2009 interview with journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari, who was then being held in Evin Prison. Press TV has failed to pay the fine. Ofcom also concluded that the station, which featured shows presented by figures such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585,21],"tags":[1308,989,7358,490,3426,7350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32267"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32310,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267\/revisions\/32310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}