Iran's Rome Embassy demands visit with jailed reporter
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:07:57 GMT
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Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, the Rome correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) |
The Iranian Embassy in Rome has made a request to visit Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, a veteran Iranian reporter jailed in Italy on charges of arms trafficking.
Italy arrested at least seven people on Wednesday, including five Italians and two Iranians, accusing them of smuggling weapons to Iran in violation of an international arms embargo.
One of the targets of Italian police was Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, who had been working as a senior correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Rome for more than 15 years.
A vocal critic of Berlusconi-led Italian policies, Masoumi-Nejad had received repeated threats from Italian authorities over his hard-hitting coverage of the scandal-ridden Berlusconi government and its increasingly intimate ties with the Israeli regime.
Four days after the reporter's arrest and subsequent imprisonment in the northwestern city of Turin, Iran's ambassador to Italy Mohammad Ali Hosseini made an official request to meet with him.
Italy arrested at least seven people on Wednesday, including five Italians and two Iranians, accusing them of smuggling weapons to Iran in violation of an international arms embargo.
One of the targets of Italian police was Hamid Masoumi-Nejad, who had been working as a senior correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Rome for more than 15 years.
A vocal critic of Berlusconi-led Italian policies, Masoumi-Nejad had received repeated threats from Italian authorities over his hard-hitting coverage of the scandal-ridden Berlusconi government and its increasingly intimate ties with the Israeli regime.
Four days after the reporter's arrest and subsequent imprisonment in the northwestern city of Turin, Iran's ambassador to Italy Mohammad Ali Hosseini made an official request to meet with him.
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