Gesbeen Mohammad
Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker
BAFTA and Emmy-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, Gesbeen Mohammad has spent her career getting at the heart of difficult stories by combining emotional human stories with complex undercover filming.
Gesbeen has produced FRONTLINE’s Peabody-winning China Undercover, broadcast in April 2020. The special documentary went undercover inside one of the world’s most repressive and secretive regions, Xinjiang in China’s northwest. The film featured undercover footage that showed extensive digital surveillance of Muslims living in Xinjiang – described as an “open prison” – and harrowing accounts of families torn apart and Muslims who were held in detention camps.
In 2019 and early 2020, Gesbeen spent several months in...
Areas of Expertise:
Terrorism Social Issues Climate & Environment Terrorism World, China
Languages:
English
Stories from Gesbeen Mohammad
Putin’s War at Home
Putin’s War at Home
The Power of Big Oil
A Minutes-Long Call After Two and a Half Years of Silence: Update from a Uyghur Family Featured in ‘China Undercover’
China Undercover
Battle For Hong Kong
Policies
Teacher Center
Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation
Koo and Patricia Yuen
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