After a long gap, an Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has bagged the US top journalism award Pulitzer Prize for her investigative reporting in China's mass detention camps. It was announced by the Pulitzer Board on Friday. Megha Rajagopalan, along with two contributors won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports harnessing satellite technology that exposed China's mass detention camps for Uighur Muslims and other minority ethnicities. Barred from China, Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News travelled to its neighbouring country Kazakhstan, where many Chinese Muslims have sought refuge. Rajagopalan's Xinjiang series won the Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category.

Source: dna June 12, 2021 14:26 UTC