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Terror scout guilty of spying on UK-based dissident Iranian broadcaster

Source: PA Media

A terror scout has been found guilty of spying on a dissident Iranian television channel in the UK after it was put on a “wanted list” by the hostile regime.

Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, carried out hostile reconnaissance for others unknown at the London headquarters of Persian-language television channel Iran International in February.

Following a trial at the Old Bailey, the Chechnya-born Austrian national was found guilty of attempting to collect information for terrorist purposes.

Dovtaev made no reaction in the dock

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