New Delhi: After china, Hong Kong banned British Broadcasting Company (BBC) programmes. Acording to the report, Hong Kong public broadcaster has announced that it would no longer relay the BBC programmes.
This announcement came shortly after China banned the British public broadcaster "within Chinese territory". In a report, South China Morning Post (SCMP), said that Hong Kong Public broadcaster's move to pull the plug on programming from BBC after a ban by Chinese regulators has sparked alarm in the city as analysts warned of a shrinking space for press freedom.
Earlier, National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) of China barred the broadcasting of BBC World News on the mainland claiming that it has done a "slew of falsified" reporting on issues such as human rights violations in Xinjiang based on interviews of victims surviving "re-education camps." The Chinese Communist Party government's mouthpiece,Global Times, said that the BBC is responsible "for falsified reporting" on China's handling of the coronavirus in the country. Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry said that "BBC has made some false reports" on human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang after the BBC reported systematic rape in so-called re-education camps.
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