Journalist Peter Langan, who was previously employed as an editor at the China Desk by The South China Morning Post (SCMP), a major English media in Hong Kong owned by Alibaba, highlighted a possible case of self-censorship by the media at a press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan recently.
In 2021, A group of SCMP journalists under Langan spent a number of months preparing a series, particularly investigating family planning and reproduction in Xinjiang, which was to be published in three segments. The investigation explored whether the human rights situation in Xinjiang constitutes the definition of “genocide of targetted groups” by the United Nations Guideline….