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“It’s far beyond sad and painful to see radio shutting down today, after nearly 85 years on air! It’s incredibly difficult to describe how we feel!” Sally Nabil, a BBC Arabic Correspondent, tweeted.Įmir Nader, a BBC Correspondent, said: “Today is a tragic day for Arab media as BBC Arabic Radio has broadcast for the last time, after 85 years of service. “Before the hard moment comes where we say our goodbyes, a moment that is tough for all of us, let’s celebrate what BBC radio gave back to us and celebrate those who gave their all to this service, those who have gone and those who are with us, and wish them the best for the remainder of their journey,” Almossallami said.Īs the final broadcast ended, many journalists and industry professionals shared their thoughts about the closure on social media. The final broadcast ended at 1 pm on Friday, with presenter Mahmoud Almossallami signing off.

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The broadcaster has said years of below-inflation license fee freezes imposed by the UK government, in addition to the increasing cost of producing programs, is to blame for the cuts.īBC Arabic Radio was first launched in early 1938 from Egypt as the BBC Empire Service’s first foreign language radio broadcast. The country executes more people each year than any other country except China, according to rights groups.'The Way': Luke Evans & Callum Scott Howells Cast In BBC Drama From Michael Sheen, James Graham & Adam Curtis

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Rights group Amnesty International said his trial had been 'grossly unfair' and he had been tortured. In April Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, 67, for alleged involvement in a deadly mosque bombing in 2008, which he denies. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his execution was a 'callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime'. In an audio message to BBC Persian he said he had been tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit. In January Iran executed British Iranian man Alireza Akbari,61, after he was convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied. Its judiciary says two other dual-nationals have been sentenced to death or executed on security chares so far this year.

Iran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges. They alleged that other leaders of the group were based in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden and the group received financial and logistical support from Saudi Arabia.Įarlier this year regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore diplomatic relations, seven years after severing them in a bitter row. Prosecutors said Chaab had been involved in attacks since 2005 'under the protection of two spy services, including the Mossad and Sapo', which are Israel and Sweden's spy agencies. He was convicted of being 'corrupt on earth', a capital offence.

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Once inside Iran, state TV showed him appearing to admit involvement in the 2018 attack. Iranian officials have not provided details of how Chaab was arrested. The 2018 attack on a military parade in the city of Ahyaz saw gunmen open fire at Revolutionary Guard troops, killing 25 people including soldiers and civilians watching the parade.Ĭhaab was reportedly lured to Istanbul to meet a woman before being kidnapped and smuggled into Iran in an operation said to have been orchestrated by a notorious Turkey-based Iranian crime boss. The oil-rich province has a large Arab minority which has long complained of marginalisation and discrimination, which Tehran denies. Iran's judiciary accused Chaab of leading Harakat al-Nidal, or the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, which Iran says is a terrorist group behind attacks in the south-west of the country. 'The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible punishment and Sweden, together with the rest of the EU, condemns its application under all circumstances,' he said. Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said his government had urged Iran not to execute Chaab. He had been living in exile in Sweden for a decade when he was abducted by Iranian agents in Turkey in 2020. Habib Chaab was the founder of a separatist group calling for independence for ethnic Arabs in Iran's south-western Khuzestan province. Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian man accused of being behind a deadly 2018 attack on a military parade.

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