Earlier this year, the British television regulator Ofcom withdrew the broadcasting license of the Chinese television channel CGTN (China Global Television Network) in the UK as the licensee did not take responsibility for the editorial content.
Additional sanctions in the form of fines now follow due to three cases of transmissions of forced confessions made by Hong Kong resident Simon Cheng and the Swedish publisher Gui Minhai.
The TV broadcasts with Gui Minhai took place in 2016 and 2018 and Ofcom has previously blamed the TV company for the broadcasts after Gui Minhai's daughter Angela Gui reported the channel to the British authority.
Ofcom now announces that CGTN will pay a total of £ 200,000 in fines for the broadcasts with Simon Cheng's and Gui Minhai's coercive recognitions, which they believe constitute a serious violation of the broadcasting rules in the UK.
Partial about the protests in Hong Kong
This is not the first time the channel has been fined for violating British broadcasting rules.
In addition to the forced acknowledgments on television, they are also sentenced to pay damages for broadcasts of the protests in Hong Kong that are considered biased.
In less than six months, the channel has been sentenced to pay a total of 450,000 British pounds, equivalent to approximately five million Swedish kronor, in damages.
CGTN has previously been seen in Sweden through Telia, something that has been met with sharp criticism by the human rights organization Safeguard defenders. The TV channel is no longer available in Telia's range.