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		</div><p>A British corporate investigator has filed a complaint to UK regulators about Chinese state TV, saying its British licence should be revoked because it broadcast his forced confession when he was imprisoned in China.</p>
<p>Peter Humphrey filed a complaint against China Central Television and its international division, China Global Television, for violating British broadcasting rules.</p>
<p>Mr Humphrey and his wife Yingzeng Yuspent two years in prison after being convicted of illegally acquiring personal information of Chinese citizens.</p>
<p>The couple had been hired on contract by pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline to look into a security breach, but became collateral damage when the Chinese government began investigating the pharmaceutical company’s bribery practices.</p>
<p>They were shown on Chinese television purportedly confessing. CGTN is available on free and pay television channels in Britain. The broadcaster is reportedly expanding its presence in Europe with a new studio and production centre set to open in London by the end of the year.</p>
<p>In 2012, Britain’s communications regulator Ofcom revoked Iranian state-owned Press TV’s licence following a complaint by Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari that the station aired an interview with him while he was detained.</p>
<p>Mr Bahari said he was forced to do a scripted interview with his captors, who threatened him with execution. Mr Humphrey said his televised confession was done under duress and he was sedated. He said he was forced to confess twice.</p>
<p>“It always happened after or amid a massive wave of international press coverage of our case, so it was part of a propaganda war,” he said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_121095" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121095" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1E260B52-5B72-40D5-8D13-E34585F8403D.jpeg"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1E260B52-5B72-40D5-8D13-E34585F8403D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="782" class="size-full wp-image-121095" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121095" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Dahlin addresses the media</figcaption></figure>
<p>He got help with his case from Peter Dahlin, a Swedish activist who was also detained in China and allegedly forced to confess on air after authorities cracked down on his human rights group. Mr Dahlin’s new rights group, Safeguard Defenders, said it has documented more than 100 forced confessions shown by CCTV. At least eight were broadcast on British airwaves, he said.</p>
<p>“Many people think CCTV merely broadcasts these, they’re made by police and (the station is) forced to broadcast them,” but its journalists are “actively engaged” in these reports, Mr Dahlin said.</p>
<p>By filing the complaint, he said they want to influence the broadcaster’s behaviour, so it will “abide by basic standards, both regulatory standards in Britain but also journalistic ethical standards”.</p>
<p>Ofcom said it was assessing the complaint “as a priority” and would take “necessary enforcement action” if it found any rules had been broken.</p>
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