The U.K.'s Office of Communications revoked a Chinese media company's right to broadcast Thursday, after finding that the license holder had no editorial control over the state-owned China Global Television Network. The agency says the Chinese Communist Party is ultimately in charge of the satellite news channel.
"Thank goodness, finally, this license has been taken away," said Humphrey, who now lives in the UK. "Considering the kind of brutal human rights violations that CGTN has been involved with, extracting and packaging forced confessions from prisoners held under torture in China who've never been in front of a judge, I just think that we should have no organization like that on our soil."
CGTN was included in a roundup of Chinese state media outlets that the U.S. designated last March as "foreign missions" of the Chinese Communist Party. The Trump administration ordered the outlets to limit their U.S.-based staff to 100 or fewer Chinese nationals each, setting off a retaliatory move from Beijing.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/964045278/u-k-strips-chinese-broadcasters-license-citing-communist-party-ties