Beijing:
China’s broadcasting regulator announced Thursday it has pulled BBC World News from the air, saying the channel’s content had “seriously” violated suggestions for reporting in the nation.
In a statement, China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) stated BBC World News reports about China have been discovered to “seriously violate” broadcast suggestions, like “the requirement that news should be truthful and fair” and not “harm China’s national interests.”
The move comes immediately after the BBC aired a report on February 3 detailing harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence against Uighur females in Chinese camps.
The NRTA “does not permit the BBC to continue broadcasting in China, and does not accept its new annual application for broadcast,” the statement from Beijing stated.
The BBC stated it was disappointed with the move.
“The BBC is the world’s most trusted international news broadcaster and reports on stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favour,” a BBC spokeswoman stated.
In a lengthy investigation based on witness testimonies, the BBC had reported allegations of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of females detainees by police and guards in China’s western area of Xinjiang.
The area is dwelling to the primarily Muslim Uighur minority and has observed a sweeping safety crackdown by Chinese forces in current years in response to separatist unrest.
The report described torture by electric shock, like anal rape by guards making use of electrified sticks. Women have been topic to gang rape and forced sterilisation, witnesses stated.
“The screams echoed throughout the building,” one was quoted as saying.
Rights groups think at least one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims are incarcerated in camps in Xinjiang.
The Chinese foreign ministry has dismissed the BBC investigation as “false”.
British junior foreign minister Nigel Adams stated the BBC report revealed “clearly evil acts”.
The government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson “is committed to taking robust action in respect of Xinjiang,” he stated, though the government has stopped quick of invoking the term “genocide”, arguing only British courts can make that legal definition.
A US State Department spokesperson reiterated the view of each the former and new US administrations that China is perpetrating “genocide” against the Uighurs.
“These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,” the spokesman stated.
The report also triggered outrage from politicians in Australia, and new calls for China to grant access to UN rights inspectors to tour Xinjiang.
China is accused of compelling Uighurs to parrot Communist propaganda and renounce Islam, forcibly sterilising females and imposing a regime of forced labour.
After initially denying the camps existed, China’s government abruptly acknowledged them, saying they have been vocational education centres aimed at minimizing the appeal of Islamic extremism.
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