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Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories were covering this week sins and chinas treatment of weaker muslims despite the best efforts of beijing journalists are finding ways to get the story out if youre reporting on the military in pakistan prepare for the worst like getting abducted in broad daylight mammie just a belt and sapphire do they look familiar we examine the stereotype of black women on screen and whats it like to be muslim when your story ends up in the hands of others we have come up with some ideas that we think would be peeled t p m. Ok the p. R. Apparatchiks in beijing have had a rough 2020 the covert 19 pandemic the 1st cases of which were in china has brought a tidal wave of bad press it did however provide a distraction from the growing scrutiny of the mass internment of weaker muslims in the province of sindh yang but that story is back where it belongs on the news agenda a few weeks back the Associated Press reported on weaker women being subjected to forced sterilizations and abortions then came a video investigation by the New York Times showing Chinese Companies using we girl labor to produce facemasks and other people to fight the pandemic since jiang is by beijings design completely closed to foreign reporters journalists have had to innovate to find ways to tell this story reporting that is being countered in increasingly aggressive ways by the authorities our starting point this week is since jan. These drone images 1st appeared online 10 months ago on september 17th 2090. Prisoners on their knees shackled blindfold on the move their feet on no. It is hard to pinpoint exactly why the video took this long to go truly viral for its impact to be felt other stories on sin jang may have changed things. June 28th and Associated Press reports on the state driving down birth rates in the province forcing bigger women to use contraception in some cases into aborting their unborn children july 19th a New York Times investigation into forced labor week was compelled to make face masks and other kinds of p. T. E. Perhaps those stories are what gave the drone video new life the attention it always does or. This clip shows roughly 100 men in uniform shackled their heads shaved. Their such graphic depictions of people who are clearly detained confined being taken someplace and on some level the the images invoke memories of other gross Human Rights Violations particularly ones committed against ethnic and religious minority and. The officers are wearing black uniforms winter label. Which has been translated as. Being in china are usually responsible for major threats especially Counterterrorism Operations interestingly enough we see some blood for the net and dressed in civilian clothes being escorted with the group the absence of a standard uniform suggests to me that they havent been formally processed and most certainly are at the pretrial stage of course the race. Why does beijing continue to ignore those offers seeing a Chinese Ambassador on a western media outlet used to be rare. That is no longer the case beijings diplomatic corps has been our gresley defending chinas response to covert 19 on all kinds of news channels working off questions on sin jack presents a different set of challenges the communist party line we groups are being reeducated not incarcerated simply does not stand up when the questions are backed with Video Evidence that appears in the contest can you tell us what is happening here. Faced with this dark vivid footage you had to pass for while he had to think how were going to respond to this in a way thats acceptable to my superiors and if he would not lie on National Television he would lose his job this is not the 1st time you show me i still remember last year you know show me one is happening in each injunction john let me tell you this. I havent been to see in yourself no i never have you know. As the most beautiful place and theres a chinese saying you do not know how to be the Chinese Ambassador that is not that is not beautiful coverage however is it when this video was shown to the Chinese Ambassador and the man he said oh i dont know what it is going to be and thank you and he obviously dismissed the view as just a prison transfer happens everywhere around the world and and praised how beautiful she is. So much of the evidence is just documentary evidence or anecdotal evidence so when you get a video material like this its just an unprecedented visual reflection of the atrocity thats being carried out and thats why it has such an impact these a wheelchair people. And some of these diplomats theyre being challenged on National Television. About us thats not an easy situation for him to be. Adrian zens is an academic who from his base in germany studies Chinese Government documents online and turns them into new stories he recently produced a piece on beijings population control policies in singeing detailed targeting going back to 2015 on how many weaker women would be implanted with are you ds how many would be sterilized his research was published by the Associated Press on june 28th chinas response came from its top diplomatic spokesman and then from the state controlled media. Only a couple days later Foreign Policy carried the Chinese State media response to my piece a personal attack that is trying to discredit my reputation trying to smear my motive. That im sort of supported or worked for a Us Intelligence my view is on these matters are actually quite mixed i dont have a strictly conservative view on the welfare state audit or the economy if you look at also my research anybody could have produced it is based on Chinese Government documents these are basically very cheap kind of character assassination attempts the policy is that professors at exposed are on their face chilling when we are doing research on different topics everything from whats happening we guarantee to torture and pretrial criminal detention to access to education for kids with disabilities we always write attorneys Government Agencies and ask for their responses to questions the authorities never respond and when we call our findings they immediately dismiss it as biased so i think the state medias criticisms of professors out as theres no substantive merit to its propagate. No more no less. Another chilling aspect of this story are the televised confessions clearly made under duress broadcast on state controlled media. Who havent been seen for weeks or months many of whom have relatives outside china suddenly appearing on the air they have the look of hostages turned into a propaganda tools. Or. Some iraqi man has been campaigning for the release of her father who is a muslim scholar and publisher who disappeared for many years and all of the bluing he appeared to look very different had shaven urging the daughter. China thank you at part of getting human with. The other true issue is that hes vulnerable that they its a Chinese Government basically using their parents as hostage to threaten them to keep quiet. And more orrible things will happen to their loved ones so they say its a new tactic by the Chinese Government to silence the boy salt lowers his waders. Some of these people have been dragged out of the camp to be interviewed on state Chinese State television they have shaven heads they have lost a huge amount of weight they are a shadow of their former self. Horrific irony of this is that oftentimes that is the 1st time in years that the. Outside of china have been able to see them a contact theyve been incoming a cargo i mean who was beijing trying to fool with this right. For more than half a century the target of the Chinese Communist partys propaganda has been its own citizens but 2020 and covert 19 have put china in the global spotlight facing an unprecedented p. R. Project. Its messaging techniques. The c. C. P. Is on the offensive setting its sights on foreign audiences overseas chinese and on the sin jang story weekers living abroad. Take it as a sign one of many that despite the criticism beijing is not turning back. As the media continues to focus on mass detention in forced labor i believe the c. C. P. Has taken their strategy into a new phase and weve seen a really startling increase in the number of convictions. And many of the crimes are arbitrary and capricious for example committing crimes that disrupt order or extremism in the meantime we see a lot more of human intelligence gathering so we see an increasingly invasive state thats occurring outside the confines of detention and forced labor so really you know with war is shielded or insulated from the longer uses of the state. Were looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers nick me your head and neck this past week we saw 2 journalists one in pakistan one in zimbabwe either abducted or arrested lets start with the case in pakistan. On a jun is a senior journalist in pakistan richard hes known for being an outspoken critic of the military would chance to end reports is in trouble he was abducted on tuesday in broad daylight in islamabad outside his wifes place of work as you can see the whole thing was captured on c. C. T. V. You see a convoy of armed men pulled up next to john and bundled him into a car just prior to that you can see that hes fine over the gate and into the courtyard of his wifes workplace so presumably he thought that the abductors were off to the contents of his phone or at least he was just trying to protect the contents of his phone or he was trying to protect the sources on his phone or he was trying to protect his sources unfortunately it didnt work one of the abductors saw what happened and collected the fun the good news is that john was released later that day and when i spoke to him he seemed to be ok but he told me that hes abducted still hes an idea why he was abducted in the 1st place no ones taken responsibility however there is a lot of speculation that pakistans secret service or military was behind it john was abducted the day before he was meant to appear in court over a tweet that he sent criticizing the removal of a judge that is also taking a tough stance against the military. Lets look at zimbabwe in this case it was an r rasta not an abduction and state security agents appear to be involved. Yes this i bitch at this genesis name is hope hes made a name for himself for exposing corruption in zimbabwe he was arrested on monday by what looked Like Police Officers or security agents we know this because you know was able to live stream the interest right up to the point where the offices came through the door so whats he been charged with well deficient story doesnt really add up in the end he was charged with incitement to participate in public violence which has to do with a protest thats coming up in harare to launch a picture is that the say he published documents that allege to show how well connected zimbabweans have been profiting off the supplying of coronavirus equipment p. P. Even the locks and this all ties together because of the protests that he was charged of and that was an Anti Corruption protest ok thanks nick. Gone with the wind Little Britain cops there are just some of the productions that have been pulled from streaming platforms in the wake of the black lives matter protests theyve been axed for glorifying Police Violence or for their reductive even racist depictions of people of color the stereotyping of black women goes way back you can trace it to the slave trade but somehow these simplistic depictions live on so many black female artists have been turning away from an industry dominated by men to tell their stories the followings theyve attracted have forced film and Television Executives the large majority of whom are white to take notice of the kind of complex and the layered stories of black womens lives and realities that rarely make it onto our screens the listening posts johannah whos now on the stereotyping of black women and the push for change in an industry where diversity and inclusion have been too long in coming. To tell you what. The jazz about. And the satisfying submissive sexy sexy 3 stereotypes of black women that return to our screen. Over again. The mammy is probably the most familiar to people its usually a made be taken care of the family hes. Really small. And. She has a sexual she doesnt have really a life of her own shes really only there to support the family and probably one of the most famous examples is a man mean from gone with the wind. Somebody who is always seeking out to put aside her own desires her own needs fall. White families white men white women white children eat. 6. Deadliest chicken and. The 2nd stereotype is the jazz about that someone whos generally oversexed is mr her only power is then her body and the influence she has over men and then finally d the sapphire character i think that scene in t. V. More often than anything else gets some kleenex wipe you know cause it a cat damn sand the sapphire is usually start. Manipulative woman who emasculate her husband. There was actually a character called sapphire stevens on the imus and andy show how do you think you could write and get our jobs back go back to the representation of the angry black woman and thats kind of metamorphosis eyes to today where we just have sassy angry black woman who doesnt take anything from anybody. Caricature is black women have been around in western culture for centuries. Theyre rooted in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and stereotypes were used to commodify black bodies and justify slavery. These characters who popularized what american. Shows comedic performances in which white actors in blackface black people just to entertain other whites. By the early 19 hundreds minstrel shows are fading in popularity but the stereotypes and. They make the jump to film than Electronic Media and they have survived to disdain. Throughout history more often than not white women are depicted in reductive ways denies that different experiences and emotions that are part of their. I am sure my perfect. Depictions of women in the media time have been used to put forward ultimately oppressive ideologies generalisations are useful i constantly say this but there are also shortcuts and it feeds into our own racist imagination. And we miss the realities the full depth of black womens stories because you are essentially rising black people youre saying there is no complexity beyond this. Well its not going to be no surprise that the audience of a creator as a lark are going to constantly feeling that we have represented a black woman in the way they are leaving what they have for epicenter is just the same racist caricature over and over again. Stereotypes like the mammy just about and sapphire however evolved over time reinvented in characters like the welfare queen and the ceci black friends looking for fancy black for. What you got one now girlfriend. In the wake of the black lives matter protests there has been renewed push back against this kind of racist imagery the content of dreadful yet oh all right we have messed up with thoughts because that is me these notes are just getting too late and i have described how to play the part of the welfare queen and my mom is playing the mommy and its too like stereotypes to get. With like deep interrogation as to watch a temper to get in and you can see if we just like pop pop as like best friends of like all white leads remember being on set and almost being asked to give us more size scale us more i to you know. I watch his back and i absolutely was complicit in the problem or. I advocated anti black quite rhetoric. For the sake of capitalism for the sake of a credit. For black actors caricature is are no longer the only parts out there. T. V. Shows like scandal how to get away with murder and in secure future layered black women in their living rooms. Its such a complex multi dimensional characters are the exception all stereotypes are token black rules remain to. Affect that is at least partly explained by a lack of diversity behind the camera at the writing desk in the directors chair. One of the problems is that there are just really arent a lot of people of color who are making decisions who are writing who are producing right its like no you. Know me. All of this but is actually really good but when you think about a show like in secure on h. B. O. Or a does that because she is a black woman she has black writers black producers and so she makes it her business to make sure that the full story is told but complex parts thats reality and we just dont see a lot of that on t. V. Or in felt. For the majority of part of the white. Predominantly male absolutely adds to the. Sort of modernization. And absolutely contribute to the misrepresentation of who we are and i was storing what i have. Read if you just put it differently now im not you make me right and so i think were turning to the internet because the internet allows us to. Commune mobilize stabilize. Educate the colonize. And free ourselves from the sort of the dominance that is like now why the white culture. The internet has offered artists a space to tell their own stories and they have proven successful series like salt fish and he says raise all sorts girl and must large follow. Is online and both shows were then shes ticked off by big broadcasters. But its taken a lot of clicks and likes for t. V. Executives to acknowledge that black women story the good the bad the Young Players are worthy of their screen time. A lot of Major Networks consider it a risk to black stories because theyre not always sure that the mainstream world received them well unfortunately black readers are in a position of having to prove over and over again that our stories are worth telling. Content created by women are incredibly talented but have often been overlooked by industry is engaging its interesting its dynamic and also because it typically doesnt conform to the conventions of industry but have been very narrow and prescriptive its more exciting in many ways in what is offered in the mainstream the white world if you will tells that story global story. Whereas when black people tell their stories those stories are only stories about those people i think that that is something that people really need to question. Because the way why stories are told the rest of us are supposed to find our humanity in those stories why cant why people find beyond humanity you know with stories as well. And finally muslim women be they black brown or any color havent had it easy on screen either very routine lee depicted as helpless captives of a patriarchal faith and culture women in need of rescue preferably by a white guy t. V. Producers have been wising up and some progress has been made but as rima ahmed a british journalist and radio host whos based in leeds will tell you theres still a long way to go before the Entertainment Industry leaves the fetishism and the tokenism behind well leave you with a sketch that ms on bed put together and through online its about being the only muslim woman in the writers room with you next time youre at the listening post hi guys thanks for inviting me to my 1st ever zoom pitch meeting this is exciting oh its a pleasure to as you know we here at whiting company. We do you continue to grow diversity agenda. I mean i start where you know whos going to show you the bangles i dont need to tell you our lives met it only so you know lets just get brainstorm and joey oh yeah cool because i was thinking like about how muslim women especially on ever we have come up with some ideas that we think would really be appealed to the. You know. Ok kevins all right. Nama stack. Ok so check this out. Muslim girl all of skateboarding right she wants to be like a little Brown Tony Hawk right except she hates her he job you get it thats not all right she falls in love with a young quare scared oh its called heaven. And you called kevin. Oh not at the end she joins i say. A tree with chinese scientists in bartlett gehring. Searching for rare is also a new space one when its produced chinas underwater on aljazeera. The arab. Hundreds of protesters gather in the philippines ahead of a key speech by president ford required to turn. Im can but al this is al jazeera a lot from doha also coming up a u. S. Consulate in china is officially closed part of a retaliation after beijing was forced to shut one of its offices in houston