London, Jan. 30 (ANI): The British broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been accused of an 'extraordinary' act of censorship for ordering a playwright to edit certain lines from a Radio 4 drama about honour killings. <\/p>\n
In an episode for the broadcaster's DCI Stone series, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti told the story of an investigation into the killing of a 16-year-old Asian girl. <\/p>\n
When it came to light that the teenager had been a victim of a so-called honour killing, the fictional detective is advised to handle the case \"sensitively\" because the family is Muslim, the Telegraph reports. <\/p>\n
At the end of the episode, called Heart Of Darkness and due to be broadcast in the Afternoon Drama slot this week, a character said that \"there is so much pressure in our community, to look right and to behave right.\" <\/p>\n
Bhatti said that a week before recording she received an email from the producer saying the BBC compliance department had asked them to take lines out. <\/p>\n
She added that 'it is an extraordinary and awful situation. They said the lines were offensive but they absolutely were not'. <\/p>\n
The BBC's alleged \"censorship\" of Bhatti's work came after her controversial play Behzti was withdrawn from a Birmingham theatre after protests from Sikhs in 2004. <\/p>\n
The play featured scenes of rape, abuse and murder inside a Sikh temple and sparked demonstrations outside the Birmingham Rep. <\/p>\n
A Radio 4 spokesman told The Independent that \"this is a hard-hitting drama about the realities of honour killing in Britain'. <\/p>\n
He said that \"a single line in the script could be taken to infer that the pressure and motivation to commit such a crime in a family comes from the wider Muslim community, potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing'. <\/p>\n
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