John Sudworth | OWM International Journalist of the Year Award Nominee 2020

John Sudworth was nominated for the International Journalist of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual One World Media Awards.
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Find out more about all of the nominees and winners of the One World Media Awards 2020: awards.oneworldmedia.org.uk
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John Sudworth led the way on the Uighurs Muslim Camps, bringing global attention the full scale and scope of the system. These reports are striking examples of the best in brave and uncompromising journalism, penetrating the surface of what we were being shown to expose the truth.

Gaining official access to China’s massive system of incarceration camps for Muslims, in its western region of Xinjiang, was an extraordinary scoop for the BBC. Joining a propaganda tour, organised entirely by Chinese officials, was fraught with editorial risks. But in the face of significant pressure, Sudworth & team insisted on doing their own independent journalism. Sudworth’s forensic questioning never lets up, revealing more by what his interviewees can’t, or won’t, tell him, than by what they do. The narrative brings home in heart rending testimony the devastating and widespread human consequences of the camps.