Norwegian Company Discontinues Airing CCP’s Broadcaster CGTN
Norwegian company Telia stopped airing China Global Television Network (CGTN) after receiving a complaint from victims who had experienced forced TV confessions in China, according to an April 13 tweet by Peter Dahlin, director of human rights group Safeguard Defenders.
The group urged global TV providers, including Eutelsat, not to air CGTN and take part in the grave human rights violations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
TV confessions are a tool that the CCP has applied to targeted groups including rights lawyers, activists, dissidents, believers, and ethnic minorities.
CGTN is a Mouthpiece of the CCP
Chinese Social Media Influencer Forced to Confess on TV
A Chinese social media influencer with millions of followers was recently arrested by Chinese authorities for questioning the Chinese soldiers’ death toll in the Sino-India border conflict in 2020. He was forced to make a “confession” on China’s state-run national TV.
On Mar. 1, the Nanjing Procuratorate announced on its official social media WeChat account that it approved the arrest of Qiu Ziming, the owner of the account named “Spicy pen small ball” on the Chinese social media Weibo, for “belittling and ridiculing the heroes and martyrs defending the border” and “causing a negative social impact.”