Press Freedom Debate
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Baroness Northover
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(4 years, 5 months ago)
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Baroness Northover (LD) [V]
When did the Government last raise the harassment of BBC Persian staff with Iran or on the international stage?
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
My Lords, I assure the noble Baroness that this is very high on our agenda in our direct bilateral conversations with Iran, and we have also had that discussion at various levels within the Human Rights Council. Iran is very much a state that suppresses media freedom and indeed other human rights, and it continues to be a country of concern in the human rights report that we issue every year.