Part of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – in the House of Commons at on 30 July 2024.
Tom Gordon
Liberal Democrat, Harrogate and Knaresborough
The Iranian authorities have been systematically targeting BBC Persian staff and their families in an attempt to intimidate them into stopping their work as journalists. Freedom of the press is a fundamental right for people all over the world, so will the Foreign Secretary and his colleagues commit to working across Government with the Culture Secretary to revisit the previous cuts to BBC Persian, and look to increase funding for the vital work that the service does?