A special on the under-reporting of China's treatment of Uighur Muslims and the tale of the Southern Media Group.
Xinjiang: The story Beijing doesn't want reported
The alleged mass incarceration of Uighur and other Turkic Muslim minorities - more than a million of them - in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is a story the Chinese government does not want out there.
For foreign journalists, reporting on it could mean a one-way ticket out of the country. Chinese journalists reporting on it have it worse: they could face threats, violence and in some cases prison sentences.
The Chinese media echo their government's security narrative on this; that the measures are necessary given separatist movements in the area prone to violence.
And the terminology can be telling. What the international media call "internment camps" and "forced indoctrination", the Chinese media describe as "political education centres" and "counter extremism training schools".
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