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SBS to temporarily stop airing Chinese state TV amid concerns over forced prisoner confessions
SBS has announced it is temporarily suspending its daily broadcast of the Chinese government’s Mandarin news bulletin after a human rights group accused the public broadcaster of possibly airing forced confessions.
Key points:
- Until now SBS has broadcast CCTV bulletins on SBS Viceland every morning
- SBS says it will suspend the bulletins while it completes a review
- Safeguard Defenders says more than 50 forced confessions have been shown on CCTV in the last seven years
The group, named Safeguard Defenders, is the same one that successfully lobbied the UK television regulator to ban China’s English-language state television channel last month.
Run by Swedish human rights activist Peter Dahlin, the group lodged a complaint accusing SBS of…
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