The human rights organization “Defenders” has been fighting back against the Chinese Communist Party’s confessions and other human rights violations, and so far the repercussions have been significant worldwide.
The Chinese Communist Party has been using official media, CCTV, to make an example out of the “confessed” film, and now it is doing it to itself! Shortly after his deportation, Peter Dahlin, a Swedish citizen who had been convicted of a crime, instead of keeping quiet, launched a counter-plan, turning into the head of the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders and joining forces with other convicted persons to start a global campaign against CCTV. They have already lost their licenses in the UK, had their broadcasts suspended in Australia, and have been investigated in the US, Canada and France.
“Television guilty pleas are a form of political terrorism,” Peter Darling said in an interview with the Voice of America, adding that it is important to resist and fight back against such behavior.
In January 2016, the Chinese Communist Party’s CCTV aired a video of Swedish citizen Peter Dahlin, who was arrested and placed under house arrest before boarding a plane to leave China because of his involvement in a mass arrest of human rights lawyers. He was later released by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but before his release, the Chinese side showed a video of him “admitting his mistake”, which caused international criticism.
Two years after his return to freedom, Peter Darling and Peter Humphrey, a former British journalist and businessman who was also convicted in Shanghai, filed a complaint against Ofcom, the British telecommunications regulator, alleging that China Central Television (CCTV-4) had violated broadcasting regulations and human rights law, and demanding the withdrawal of the license (for related news, click here). After more than a year of review, Ofcom ruled that CGTN had violated UK law by broadcasting a video of Peter Darling’s guilty plea, and not only withdrew the license in February, but also fined CGTN £100,000 in March.
Not only Han Feilong, but also Angela Gui, the daughter of Swedish-born Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai, former Hong Kong Causeway Bay bookstore manager Lin Rongji, and former British Consulate employee Zheng Wenjie, all filed similar complaints with the support of Protective Services.
Now, in addition to the revocation of CCTV’s license in the UK, in March this year, Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) announced that it would temporarily suspend CGTN and CCTV4’s television confessions; Canada, France and the US have all launched investigations into the complaints.
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