Saeed Karimian

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