Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag
Winner: BAFTA TV Awards, Current Affairs, 2020
Winner: International Emmy, Current Affairs, 2020
Winner: Grierson Awards, Current Affairs, 2020
Winner: Prix Italia, Best Documentary and Signis Special Prize, 2020
Winner: Foreign Affairs Journalism, British Journalism Awards, 2019
Winner: Venice TV Award: Best Documentary (2020)
Winner: Amnesty Media Awards: Investigation (2020)
Nominated: BAFTA Craft Awards: Director - Factual, 2020
Highly commended: Investigation of the Year, British Journalism Awards, 2019
Nominated: Best Single Documentary, RTS Programme Awards, 2020
Nominated: Current Affairs, Broadcast Awards, 2020
Nominated: Current Affairs - International, RTS Journalism Awards, 2020
Nominated: Technology Journalism, British Journalism Awards, 2019
Nominated: Documentary and Factual: Social and Current Affairs, BANFF - Rockie Awards, 2020
★★★★★ Financial Times
“When I go home, if I disappear, don’t tell anyone or say anything. There are people listening everywhere. Everyone has someone following them”
This documentary for ITV’s award-winning Exposure strand goes undercover inside a secretive province in China to provide a vivid insight into how its government is holding an estimated million or more Muslims in detention camps without trial.
The Chinese government’s detention of Uyghur Muslims is the largest incarceration of an ethnic group since the Second World War, and the programme explores claims that 12 million other Muslims are now living outside detention in what campaigners say is an ‘open prison’.
Footage taken earlier this year by an undercover Exposure journalist shows just how extensive surveillance, specifically of the Uyghur population, has become in this region.
Read Robin’s Sunday Times article (paywall)
Directed, filmed and produced by Robin Barnwell
Producer: Gesbeen Mohammad
Composer: Simon Russell
Film Editor: Guy Creasey
Executive Producer: David Henshaw
Broadcast on ITV (Hardcash Productions)
