Thursday, August 16, 2012

China's State-Run TV Sued over Propaganda

WONG: A US lawyer representing Falun Gong adherents...filed an appeal this week in a case against China Central Television. Also called CCTV, the network is China's official TV news agency -- controlled in part by the Communist Party's Propaganda Department. The plaintiffs in the case are charging CCTV with aiding and inciting the communist regime's genocide of people who practice Falun Gong. Here's more. ANCHOR PART AFTER STORY: More info about this groundbreaking lawsuit is available from our media partner, The Epoch Times. STORY: Terri Marsh is a lawyer in Washington DC Her clients are a group of Falun Gong adherents currently residing in the US after having been imprisoned and tortured in China because of their spiritual beliefs. Marsh says CCTV's anti-Falun Gong propaganda programs have played a central role in dehumanizing adherents through deliberate misinformation--and CCTV has also helped incite police and prison guards to subject the religious group to a campaign of persecution that relies on prolonged sessions of intense torture. The case argues that this type of hate-propaganda was once used by the Nazis against the Jews...and is now being used by the Chinese regime against Falun Gong. [Terri Marsh, Lawyer]: "This case is about the role of propaganda in campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing... The images of the target are always the same, and the message that follows is always the same: 'kill them or they will destroy you.' And what follows is always the ...



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