Commentary It’s been a bad week for China Global Television Network (CGTN), the Chinese regime’s English media channel. On Aug, 26, CGTN was issued two fines of about $140,000 each, for airing the forced televised confessions of Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai and former Hong Kong resident Simon Cheng. Gui Minhai is well-known these days as one of the “Causeway Bay Five.” He was kidnapped from his summer home in Thailand in late 2015. The case of Simon Cheng, a former employee at the UK’s Hong Kong Consulate General who was disappeared and tortured in mainland China, also received extensive media coverage and caused a diplomatic spat between China and the UK. Following these latest fines, CGTN, previously known as CCTV, has now been levied over $420,000 by UK TV regulator Ofcom in less than six months. CGTN has also been slapped with an additional penalty of about $175,000 for their biased reporting on the …
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