China suddenly takes BBC news off air after Muslim detention camps mentioned

China censored a TV report about its detention of more than a million Uighur Muslims in “re-education camps” by suddenly cutting off the broadcast, according to a BBC reporter. Stephen McDonell filmed the moment the World Service Newsday programme went off air as he began to speak about the treatment of the Turkic ethnic minority in the northwestern Xinjiang province. Mr McDonell, the BBC’s China correspondent, said a similar thing happened the previous day during discussion of the same issue.
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