Saeed Karimian

Saeed Karimian
Persian: سعید کریمیان
Born(1972-08-08)8 August 1972
Tehran, Iran
Died29 April 2017(2017-04-29) (aged 44)
Istanbul, Turkey
Cause of deathAssassination
CitizenshipIranian
British
Occupation(s)founder and chairman of Gem Televisions Network

Saeed Karimian (8 August 1972[1] – 29 April 2017) was an Iranian television executive, the founder, chairman, and owner of Dubai-based [2] GEM TV, which runs 17 Persian-language TV channels, plus one each in Kurdish, Azeri, and Arabic.[3][4] Karimian, who was British national,[5] had been tried in absentia by a court in Tehran, and sentenced to a prison term of six years for spreading propaganda against Iran.[4]

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