According to RIA Novosti, an application for participation was submitted a month before the start of the congress, but the response from the organizers of the event was rejected late on Saturday, September 28.
“Accreditation for the media has not been granted,” they said there, without explaining the reasons for this decision.
Earlier, the Russian embassy commented on the promise of British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab "to impose sanctions against regimes that oppress journalists."
On July 5, it became known that the British Foreign Ministry did not issue accreditation to the RT channel for a conference on media freedom.
Later, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office explained that RT and Sputnik were not accredited "because of their active participation in the dissemination of misinformation."
After that, the producer of the video agency Ruptly asked the former British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt what he thought about the inadmissibility of the RT channel to the media freedom conference in London, to which he replied that "this is not about freedom," and left.