"I don't see why a great power, even the greatest in the world, shouldn't be criticised by an organisation like Amnesty International, even if the United States is certainly not the most blameworthy country as far as human rights are concerned," says Herve Bourges, president of France's broadcasting watchdog, the Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA).

He was reacting to the decision by the Bureau de Verification de la Publicite (BVP), a body made up of advertisers and broadcasters, which monitors advertising standards, to ban a video put out by the French section of Amnesty International.

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