A Greek man has appeared in a UK court charged with carrying out surveillance on behalf of a foreign intelligence service - believed to be Iran's - of a journalist working for the London-based television station Iran International.
Ioannis Aidinidis, 46, who was born in Georgia and now lives in Munich, Germany, was arrested on May 16 and has been charged under the United Kingdom's National Security Act.
Prosecutor Daniel Ingham told London's Westminster Magistrates' Court that Aidinidiswas accused of travelling to the UK twice, in April and in May, to carry out surveillance of the journalist.
