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Uplifting propaganda posters touting President Xi Jinping's "China Dream" catchphrase are plastered across many cities in China these days. But throughout the country's westernmost province, an unrelenting series of billboards, red banners and spray-painted signs suggests menace lurking everywhere.

"It is strictly forbidden to transmit violent terrorist videos," warn banners hung from government buildings and draped across traffic lane dividers. "Young men should not grow beards and young women should not cover their faces with veils," some signs read.

The messages make it clear whom authorities blame for the explosions, knifings, riots and other violent incidents that have left hundreds dead this year in Xinjiang province: Islamic extremists and separatists with ties to foreign forces.

But even as Chinese officials insist that this is a clear-cut battle against religious zealots and hard-core separatists, local authorities are making it difficult for anyone to independently question (or substantiate) that narrative. Outsiders inquiring about the scale or causes of the carnage in Xinjiang are unwelcome, and locals are discouraged from speaking freely about it.

That became abundantly clear on a recent Thursday when I and my assistant, our driver and guide suddenly found ourselves accompanied by two extremely persistent Xinjiang security officers who trailed us for hours and whose intimidating presence ensured that no one would talk openly to us.

China's state-run media must follow the Communist Party line, but foreign journalists are supposed to be able to travel freely anywhere in the country except Tibet and interview anyone who consents.

In reality, though, authorities employ various tactics to stifle coverage. In a recent survey by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China, two-thirds of overseas reporters here said they had experienced interference, harassment or violence while attempting to report.

At my hotel in Kashgar, I was questioned and photographed by police; in Yafuquan, where I stopped to observe a village market and wasn't interviewing anyone, officers nonetheless approached our van within 20 minutes, demanded my passport, photographed it and told us to leave the area.

I actually got off lightly compared with Australian Broadcasting Corp. correspondent Stephen McDonell, who said he was recently trailed for 10 days in Xinjiang, sometimes followed by five cars carrying officials and plainclothes officers.

Later, Chinese Embassy representatives visited McDonell's bosses in Canberra, he said, urging them to quash any report on the trip and warning that any broadcast about his experience could harm relations between the two countries.

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The Islamic State militants captured eight journalists and media workers working for a local television in the militants-seized city of Mosul, capital of the countrys northern province of Nineveh, a provincial security source said on Sunday.

Five media workers were captured by the IS militants early in the day, while three others were captured on Friday, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Four reporters and cameramen, two technicians and an administrator are all working for local news Sama Mosul satellite channel, the source said.

The IS militants stormed their homes in different districts of Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and captured them, the source added.

After the IS took control of Mosul in June, Iraqs second largest city, many reporters have left the city for fear of reprisals.

On Oct. 11, IS militants kidnapped and executed Raad al-Azzawi, a cameraman for local news Sama Salahudin satellite channel, and three of his relatives in Iraqs central province of Salahudin for alleged collaboration with Iraqi security forces.

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders group said the U.S. war with Iraq was the most lethal for journalists since World War II, and the statistics of the Iraqi Union of Journalists showed that more than 300 of its members and media workers were killed since the start of the U.S.-led war in March, 2003.

Iraqs security situation began to drastically deteriorate on June 10, when bloody clashes broke out between the Iraqi security forces and the IS, an al-Qaida break-away group, who took control of the countrys northern city of Mosul and later seized swathes of territories after Iraqi security forces abandoned their posts in Nineveh and other predominantly Sunni provinces.

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IS captures eight media workers in Iraqs Mosul

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