7 February 2012 Last updated at 02:32 ET Human Rights Watch said the Iranian authorities were attempting to silence reporters and the BBC Reports from Iran say several people have been detained for alleged links to the BBC's Persian Service, which is ban

BBC Director General Mark Thompson is speaking out to try and stop a campaign of intimidation against Iranian staff who worked outside Iran Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of BBC journalists to force them to qu

Feb 5 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of British Broadcasting Corporation journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, the BBC's head said on Sunday. Mark Thompson, director-general o

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of British Broadcasting Corporation journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, the BBC's head said on Sunday. Mark Thompson, director-general

In the past few days, a new champion has sprung forward to defend the nation's oppressed intellectual minority. The hero in question is, of course, Lord Patten, to whose file of lustre-strewn appointments – major-domo of the Conservative Party, retiring

The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them, the British broadcaster said today. BBC Director General Mark Thompson said the sister of a BBC Persian journalist was arre

AFP - The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them, the British Broadcasting Corporation said Friday. BBC Director General Mark Thompson said the sister of a BBC Persian

The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them, the British Broadcasting Corporation said Friday. BBC Director General Mark Thompson said the sister of a BBC Persian journ

An Iranian hardline student holds a sign opposed to the BBC during a demonstration in August outside the British Embassy in Tehran to protest against what students called the 'savage' crackdown by British police on rioters in London. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/G

Saying officials have undertaken yet another campaign of "bullying and harassment" of its Persian service staff, the BBC called on the Iranian government to "repudiate the action of its officials." In a blog post , the BBC's Director General Mark Thompso

BBC director-general Mark Thompson said there was "a campaign of bullying and harassment" against the British broadcaster. He said the incident was just one of several in which employees' relatives have been detained and "urged to get their relatives in

3 February 2012 Last updated at 10:59 ET Human Rights Watch said the Iranian authorities were attempting to silence reporters and the BBC The BBC's director general has accused the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service

LONDON (AP) — The head of the BBC on Friday accused Iran of intimidating staff members of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their relatives. BBC director-general Mark Thompson said "a campaign of bullying and harassment" aga

The Associated Press | LONDON The BBC is accusing Iran of intimidating staff of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their relatives. BBC director-general Mark Thompson on Friday accused Iranian authorities of "a campaign of b

One by one the 30-odd men and women at Mark Thompson’s Super Bowl party heaved themselves onto his electronic scale. The crowd cheered as the weight of each bloated gut was announced – a careful calculation based on a pre-party weigh in. “Full transparen

31 January 2012 Last updated at 13:18 ET The cases of Miriam O'Reilly and Arlene Phillips attracted a lot of interest in the press TV viewers are largely satisfied with the portrayal of different age ranges in the media, a study by the Creative Diversity

Did last week's events indicate a change of direction at the BBC? On Monday Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, told The Times that head hunters had been instructed to find a successor to Mark Thompson as director-general. On Wednesday he made a spee

Change at the top will come to the BBC as “signals” went out that Director General Mark Thompson will exit sometime between the end of the London Olympic Games and the end of the year, or maybe a bit later. The BBC Trust retained a headhunter to sort thr

When Mark Thompson steps down as director- general of the BBC after the Olympics, who should replace him and what should they earn? Will a fresh face and a more palatable salary convince politicians and viewers that the corporation is in tune with auster