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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
In an apparent tit-for-tat move, BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, according to a statement from China's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) on Thursday.
10 Mar 2021
The Chinese state-owned broadcaster CGTN has been fined £225,000 by Britain’s media regulator for its apparent bias in coverage of the pro-democracy Hong Kong protest movement and for airing alleged forced confessions on its airwaves.
On Monday, Ofcom announced that it would be fining China Global Television Network £125,000 for its failures in abiding by “due impartiality” regulations in the UK during five separate broadcasts concerning the Hong Kong freedom movement in 2019.
Another fine of £100,000 was imposed against the CCP propaganda outlet for violating privacy and fairness regulations during two reports from 2013 and 2014, which covered the arrest of British citizen Peter Humphrey in Shanghai, the
British regulators fine Chinese propaganda channel
Ofcom has demanded that CGTN pays fines after breaching the UK s broadcasting rules. Critics say the English-language satellite broadcaster merely parrots the Chinese Communist Party line in its reports.
Ofcom fined CGTN over breaches to the UK s broadcasting code
British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000 (£225,000, $309,000), one month after having revoked its license.
Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel s airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.
Ofcom hit the Chinese channel with a €110,000 fine for breaching the country s broadcast code.
CGTN regularly airs programs that noticeably free of any criticism of China