economic corridor, or cpec, a series of infrastructure projects that connect the two countries. winner of the news features award, brent huffman, spent over four years and made five separate trips to produce this exclusive report on the underground railroad run by mohammed umer. so, ifirst met umer back in 2015, and umer is or at that time, was a schoolteacher, he was running a nonprofit sort of covering uyghur language and uyghur culture, and then seeing, you know, the tragedy happening to the uyghur people within china, he was incredibly motivated to do something to help. so he began what s essentially this underground railroad where he s smuggling threatened uyghurs out of china,
bringing them into pakistan and then trying to find a safe location that they can emigrate to. for all the promises of cpec to transform pakistan s economy, some groups see these developments as a threat and have mounted a violent campaign of resistance, including the balochistan liberation army, whose commander spoke exclusively to huffman. china dismisses these claims and has accused the bla of being a terrorist organisation. as these cpec projects develop, the situation for uyghurs gets worse and worse, and the way china sees it is that they want to silence the uyghur community, they want to sort of clamp down so that they are essentially
so he began what s essentially this underground railroad where he s smuggling threatened uyghurs out of china, bringing them into pakistan and then trying to find a safe location that they can emigrate to. for all the promises of cpec to transform pakistan s economy, some groups see these developments as a threat and have mounted a violent campaign of resistance, including the balochistan liberation army, whose commander spoke exclusively to huffman. china dismisses these claims and has accused the bla of being a terrorist organisation. as these cpec projects develop, the situation for uyghurs gets worse and worse, and the way china sees it is that they want
in pakistan, smuggling persecuted muslims into other countries. his work is becoming more difficult as china invests billions of dollars into the china pakistan economic corridor, or cpec, a series of infrastructure projects that connect the two countries. winner of the news features award, brent huffman, spent over four years and made five separate trips to produce this exclusive report on the underground railroad run by mohammed umer. so, i first met umer back in 2015, and umer is or at that time was a schoolteacher, he was running a nonprofit sort of covering uyghur language in uyghur culture, and then seeing, you know, the tragedy happening to the uyghur people within china, he was incredibly motivated to do something to help.
including the balochistan liberation army, whose commander spoke exclusively to huffman. china dismisses these claims and has accused the bla of being a terrorist organisation. as these cpec projects develop, the situation for uyghurs gets worse and worse, and the way china sees it is that they want to silence the uyghur community, they want to sort of clamp down so that they are essentially not causing problems for the cpec projects. the judges said this was a brilliantly structured and told film, solid journalism with a beating heart, the clearest telling of a complex story, which is inspiring,