This is The Guardian.

Today, how China is trying to silence UK academics.

We knew from the get-go that we were going to be monitored, that our work was going to be

heavily scrutinized, and that it would not please the Chinese government.

Laura Murphy is a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield-Hallam

University in the north of England. For 20 years, she's devoted her career to exposing forced

labour, any work or service that people are forced to do against their will, usually under

threat of punishment. So when she started investigating how the Chinese government was

exploiting the country's Uyghur community to mine rare minerals and to make consumer goods

for the West, she knew it would prove controversial.

Since 2016-17, the Chinese government had created a big system of internment camps,

where they started this system of state and post-force labor.

That means that anyone who has requested to work by a government official

or through a government program has no choice but to comply.

The Chinese government denies the allegations of forced labor and says their factories

designed to raise people out of poverty. But papers published by Laura and her colleagues told a different story, and their findings

went round the world.

They were cited by Western governments, as well as the United Nations, and helped to root out

goods made by forced labor from international supply chains.

We show supply chains.

We trace them all the way to the Western markets, and so we were naming big international companies as well.

Then last year, something strange started to happen.

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