{"id":64711,"date":"2021-03-05T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/mar\/05\/sbs-suspends-broadcasts-from-chinese-state-run-channels-over-forced-confessions"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:46:03","slug":"sbs-suspends-broadcasts-from-chinese-state-run-channels-over-forced-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/05\/sbs-suspends-broadcasts-from-chinese-state-run-channels-over-forced-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"SBS suspends broadcasts from Chinese state-run channels over ‘forced confessions’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Human rights organisation says CGTN and CCTV channels regularly featured footage of prisoners making confessions under duress<\/p>
Australian public broadcaster SBS has suspended broadcasts from Chinese state media channels CGTN and CCTV, pending a review into human rights complaints.<\/p>
SBS told the Guardian it was reviewing a complaint sent by human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders, which claimed CGTN and CCTV programs regularly shown on the multicultural broadcaster had in the past included dozens of forced confessions<\/a> both domestically and internationally, in breach of the SBS code of conduct. It did not claim that SBS had aired any of the confessions.<\/p> Related: <\/span>Death threats, distrust and racism: how anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia 'seeped into the mainstream'<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n