This extensive video interview with Peter Dahlin is an excellent up-to-date overview of the current state of the fight against China’s propaganda broadcasts of forced confessions. Watch here:
Once Detained in China, Peter Dahlin Started Campaign to Challenge CCTV on Forced TV Confessions. Focus Talk. Jenny Chang, NTD, April 22, 2021.
What’s happening is that thanks to the serious, competent work of Dahlin, the Safeguard Defenders organization (extensively documented here), and many others, China’s CGTN / CCTV is now getting fined and suspended in multiple markets, incl. the UK, Sweden, and Norway, and proceedings against them are afoot in the US, Canada, and other places too.
Above all, they are getting hammered for their maltreatment of the victims of their coerced, scripted ‘confessions’ — including by the victims themselves.
Also, they’re now found to be violating laws that many countries have against media bias and against media control by political entities, such as the Chinese Communist Party (as Peter explains, while the CCTV/CGTN “state TV” was of course always controlled by the Communist Party, recently, they’ve made this control official! …so, it’s officially Party TV now, not “Chinese state TV”!).
It’s also fascinating to hear about how after the UK Ofcom ‘guilty’ finding hit home, CGTN in Beijing had a crisis meeting which lasted two days! And to hear Peter speak again, in hindsight, about his own 2016 experience of being put through the scripted confession process (for an earlier report see here).
The only thing missing here really is a discussion of the revolting use of the Chinese torture confession model in Xinjiang (I recently wrote on how even the Xinjiang camps in themselves are actually set up to perform this same destructive process, which is here brought in to help destroy Uyghur ethnicity as such).
Magnus Fiskesjö, nf42@cornell.edu
ps. After the Falungong media went all-in for the outrageous and dangerous “Kraken” lies that fuelled the January armed assault on democracy in the US, I normally don’t forward any Falungong-related publications any more, but I make an exception here, since the interview stays on topic, and because Peter Dahlin is serious, and he does almost all the talking.