(EFE) .- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday asked the European Union to sanction the official Chinese network CCTV and Xinhua News Agency to disseminate and publish confessions “forced” to citizens European and Chinese.
In a statement, the organization said he is in the “shock” to the growing practice of the official Chinese media to spread confessions that were allegedly made under duress.
This is a trend that has emerged in the administration of President Xi Jinping (since 2013) and the Chinese and foreign citizens who have appeared on television confessing to crimes, sometimes even before that he knew they were arrested or who had starting legal proceedings against them.
RSF today considers this practice “involves an alarming threat to information and free journalism.”
The latest “victims” of these televised confessions, RSF recalls are Swede Peter Dahlin, cofounder of the China NGO Action in China or Hong Kong Gui Minhai (with a Swedish passport) , owner of the publishing Mighty Current, which publishes books critical of the ruling Communist Party.
The latest “victims” of these televised confessions are the Swedish Peter Dahlin, cofounder of the China NGO Action in China or Hong Kong Gui Minhai (with a Swedish passport), owner of the publishing Mighty Current
Dahlin disappeared earlier this month when he was on his way to the airport to take a flight to Thailand and later confirmed that he had been arrested. His Chinese girlfriend, Pan Jinling, who was beside him, still missing.
Authorities now accuse the NGOs, who used to train lawyers and defenders of human rights, endangering state security.
For Gui, the Hong Kong disappeared in October last year in Thailand while almost four booksellers over the region and the mystery was broken when he appeared on Chinese television this month saying he wanted to be tried by the authorities and asking the Swedish government not to meddle in the matter.
“We are shocked by the broadcast forced confessions that have no informative value, “said Benjamin Ismail, head of RSF in Asia Pacific.
For Ismail, CCTV and Xinhua have become” weapons of propaganda masses “and will no longer media facto, issuing statements that have been made presumably under duress.
The organization and called for sanctions against CCTV and its executives in August 2014, when the alleged confession Xiang Nanfu journalist was issued, and now returns to ask for these measures, which, remember, the EU has taken in the past, for example, on Iranian media.
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