French Licence Puts Pressure on China State Broadcaster: NGO Director
The French broadcasting licence that China Global Television Network (CGTN) has obtained will bring more pressure to the Chinese state broadcaster, an NGO director says.
Peter Dahlin, the director of Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO that has filed complaints against CGTN that led to its licence being revoked in the UK, said France’s decision to give CGTN a licence was not really a decision to begin with.
“To be included to be carried on satellites, that is an automatic process. So it’s not so much that the French TV regulator approved them, so much as it’s automatic,” Dahlin told The Epoch Times on Monday.
SBS Suspends Chinese State Media Broadcasts Over Human Rights Complaint
Australian public broadcaster SBS has temporarily stopped its broadcasts from Chinese state-run television CCTV and CGTN after receiving a complaint from a human rights group that both channels had aired dozens of forced confessions.
SBS announced on Friday it was reviewing a letter of complaint sent by the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders, which highlighted “serious human rights concerns”.
The group accused SBS’s English and Mandarin-language programs suppliers, CGTN and CCTV, of broadcasting at least 56 “forced confessions” from prisoners over a seven-year period.
Both networks, produced by Chinese state-controlled media to target international audiences, are aired on SBS as part of its World Watch programming, with CGTN broadcasted since 2015 and CCTV since 1993.
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