UK Media Watchdog Fines Zakir Naik’s Peace TV For “Hate Speech”, “Highly Offensive” Content
Zakir Naik has been sought after in India for cash laundering and inciting extremism.
London:
UK’s media watchdog Ofcom has fined arguable Islamic preacher Zakir Naik”s Peace TV community 300,000 kilos for broadcasting “hate speech” and “extremely offensive” content material within the nation.
The London-based regulator for the communications products and services in the United Kingdom has fined licence holders of Peace TV Urdu 200,000 kilos and Peace TV 100,000 kilos for breaking its broadcasting laws.
“Our investigations discovered that programmes broadcast on Peace TV Urdu and Peace TV contained hate speech and extremely offensive content material, which in a single example used to be more likely to incite crime,” it mentioned.
“We concluded that the content material represented severe screw ups of compliance with our broadcasting laws, which warranted fines. Ofcom has these days fined the previous licence holders of Peace TV Urdu 200,000 kilos and Peace TV 100,000 kilos for breaking our broadcasting laws,” Ofcom mentioned in a commentary.
Peace TV is owned by way of Lord Productions Restricted, and Membership TV holds the licence of Peace TV Urdu. Each have the Common Broadcasting Company Restricted as their guardian corporate which is owned by way of Naik, a 54-year-old televangelist and Islamic preacher from Mumbai.
“The previous licence holders, Membership TV and Lord Manufacturing will have to now pay 200,000 kilos and 100,000 kilos respectively to HM Paymaster Common,” mentioned the commentary issued early this month.
Peace TV is a nonprofit satellite tv for pc tv community broadcasting free-to-air programmes in English, Bengali and Urdu languages from Dubai. The founder and president of Peace TV is Naik.
The arguable preacher has been sought after in India for cash laundering and inciting extremism via hate speeches. He left India in 2016 and due to this fact moved to Malaysia, the place he used to be granted everlasting residency.
Remaining week, India made a proper request to the Malaysian executive for his extradition.
He used to be banned from coming into into the United Kingdom in 2010 because of his “unacceptable behaviour”.
