International Broadcasting Association berates Latvia & Lithuania for ‘political decision’ to ban RT

Latvia and Lithuania

Latvia and Lithuania should “reverse without delay” their bans of tv network RT, a UK-based trade group said, adding that the decisions appeared to be political in nature, are based on an error and failed to stick to due process.

Media regulators in the two Baltic nations have recently banned RT from broadcasting, claiming that this was done to enforce EU sanctions. The decisions were criticized by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB), a UK-based industry body, which counts among its members the UK’s BBC Global News, Japan’s NHK World Service, Canada’s CBC, as well as RT itself.

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