Indian-Origin Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China's Detention Camps For Muslims

Megha Rajagopalan's Xinjiang series won the Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category. Minutes after she won, Ms Rajagopalan said she wasn't even watching the ceremony live because she wasn't expecting to win. She only found out when she received a call.

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region. Ms Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News is among two Indian-origin journalists who won the US's top journalism award on Friday. Tampa Bay Times'' Neil Bedi won for local reporting. Neil Bedi along with Kathleen McGrory has been awarded the prize for the series exposing a Sheriff's Office initiative that used computer modelling to identify people believed to be future crime suspects. About 1,000 people were monitored under the programme, including children. Neil Bedi is an investigative reporter for the Tampa Bay Times.