Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing China's vast infrastructure for detaining Muslims

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, 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.

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. Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News is among two Indian-origin journalists who won the US'' top journalism award on Friday. Tampa Bay Times’ Neil Bedi won for local reporting. 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.