China’s TV channel faces UK ban as complaints mount

Regulator Ofcom under growing pressure to block state-backed station for its broadcast of forced confessions

Britain's broadcasting regulator is under mounting pressure to bar China's state-owned TV channel from the UK's airwaves after accusations that it has repeatedly breached impartiality rules and aired forced confessions.

There are currently three live investigations under way by Ofcom into China Global Television Network (CGTN), the country's English-language news channel. The regulator has already ruled against the channel earlier this month, for airing a forced confession by the former British journalist Peter Humphrey. Labour is to raise alleged repeated breaches by the channel with Ofcom's chief executive Melanie Dawes.