Live TV segment reveals frightening Peng Shuai truth

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A conception connected CNN discussing the caller enigma implicit the whereabouts of Chinese tennis prima Peng Shuai has provided a frightening penetration into censorship successful that country.

Peng's disappearance has made headlines astir the world implicit the past week, with a big of tennis stars calling for China to corroborate that she is well.

She went missing aft a societal media station that alleged she'd been sexually assaulted by a elder Chinese official.

In a portion discussing the payment of Peng, who was shown precocious successful a video telephone with IOC brag Thomas Bach, CNN besides showed the unrecorded provender of the web successful China, with the treatment censored arsenic soon arsenic the taxable was raised.

CNN anchors John Berman and Brianna Keilar were speaking with newsman Will Ripley astir the issue, erstwhile the CNN awesome successful China simply disappeared.

"I privation to explicate to our viewers what's happening connected our surface close present due to the fact that underneath your (Ripley's) face, they tin spot a container which is the existent unrecorded provender of this broadcast successful China, but it's each colour bars and it went to colour bars the infinitesimal you started talking," Berman said.

"What's going connected here?"

Ripley replied: "Chinese censors, John. I person mislaid number implicit the past 8 years present successful Asia covering China however galore times CNN's sum of arguable issues has been censored.

"It utilized to spell to consecutive black, but present they've upgraded and they spell to colour bars. But nevertheless it is simply a live, real-time illustration of the censorship that's happening successful the mainland.

"They scrubbed Peng Shuai from the internet, they're surely not talking astir this connected tv and adjacent connected planetary networks, they person an service of censors waiting to propulsion that fastener the infinitesimal that we commencement talking astir this story.

"But it is not making this communicative spell away."

Peng was missing for astir 3 weeks aft her societal media post, earlier re-appearing successful a video telephone with IOC brag Thomas Bach connected Sunday.

The IOC is present facing expanding backlash implicit its handling of the affair, fixed Beijing is owed to big the Winter Olympics successful February.

"This is conscionable disturbing connected different level," tweeted Yaqiu Wang, a spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch.

"The IOC is present actively playing a relation successful the Chinese government's enforced disappearance, coercion and propaganda machinery."

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