Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom on Monday imposed financial penalties on Chinese state broadcaster CGTN for airing forced confessions and biased coverage of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. CGTN, or China Global Television Network, is an international English-language satellite news channel owned by the Chinese regime and directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ofcom imposed a fine of £100,000 ($138,359) on Star China Media Limited, CGTN’s former licence holder in the UK, after finding the broadcaster guilty of “serious” violations of British broadcasting regulations for airing a forced confession extracted from British citizen Peter Humphrey in 2013. The regulator found that CGTN’s broadcasts constituted “unfair treatment” of Humphrey and “unwarranted infringement of privacy.” Separately, Ofcom fined CGTN’s former licence holder £125,000 ($172,929) after finding the network in “serious failure of compliance” with UK impartiality laws during its coverage of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The regulator ruled in May 2020 that …