SCMP: Censor blocks sensitive issues in BBC series

China blocked portions of the BBC’s China Week reports, according to this report in South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network:

Transmissions of the BBC World channel’s week-long series of mainland-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners were repeatedly blocked yesterday during reports on politics and other sensitive issues.

A story about restive Uygurs in Xinjiang was cut off after just seconds. The screen went black after a BBC correspondent said: “But the Uygur people have little affection for their Chinese masters.”

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