The French broadcasting licence that China Global Television Network (CGTN) has obtained will bring more pressure to the Chinese state broadcaster, an NGO director says. Peter Dahlin, the director of Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO that has filed complaints against CGTN that led to its licence being revoked in the UK, said France’s decision to give CGTN a licence was not really a decision to begin with. “To be included to be carried on satellites, that is an automatic process. So it’s not so much that the French TV regulator approved them, so much as it’s automatic,” Dahlin told The Epoch Times on Monday. Dahlin said he thinks there’s “something very positive” with the development, as CSA—France’s audiovisual regulator—said they would pay “close attention” to CGTN’s content, a move Dahlin said was “incredibly unusual.” CSA “also specified that France has very strict regulation on what you can and cannot broadcast, so …