But three people interviewed said they had little choice but to air propaganda clips when Beijing said so".[13][14] CGTN employees were disciplined when a news report mentioned Falun Gong, the religious group labeled as a cult and banned by the PRC. The flag of Taiwan, the self-governing island that is claimed by PRC, are banned from broadcasts. In November 2018, amid growing international criticism of China’s imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs in indoctrination camp programs designed to discourage Islam, CGNT America aired a piece portraying the camps as successful vocational training and antiterrorism centers and Uighurs as grateful.