Islam Channel fined £40k by Ofcom for repeated breaches
Ofcom has today imposed a £40,000 financial penalty on Islam Channel Ltd for serious and repeated breaches of its broadcasting rules.
Islam Channel is an English-language satellite TV station airing religious instruction, current affairs, documentaries and entertainment programmes from an Islamic perspective.
Ofcom’s investigation found ‘The Andinia Plan’, a one-hour documentary that examined a conspiracy theory which originated in a neo-Nazi publication, amounted to hate speech against Jewish people. This antisemitic content was also highly offensive and not sufficiently justified by the context.
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Ofcom concluded that these were serious and repeated breaches of rules which warranted the imposition of the following statutory sanctions: a financial penalty, to be paid by Islam Channel Ltd to HM Paymaster General; a direction not to repeat the programme; and a direction to broadcast a statement of findings on a date and in a form to be determined by Ofcom.
