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As China gears up to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is about to feel the heat as campaigners for Uyghur rights across the world come together to pressure multinational corporations into thinking twice about cooperating with the CCP.
Border agencies say goods are made by detained Uyghur Muslims forced into slave labour
“The evidence of the scale and the severity of the human rights violations being perpetrated in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far-reaching, and it paints a truly harrowing picture.”
The UK foreign secretary is expected to announce plans ‘to ban’ Chinese imports as it further cracks down on the Communist regime for its ongoing oppression of the Uyghurs.
The tweet was deleted by Twitter moderators after widespread anger aimed at the Chinese Embassy for its shockingly open declaration that China was making Uyghur women feel “emancipated” by its drive to eradicate “extremism” in the region of Xinjiang.
“Her disappearance came days after her sister Rushan Abbas took part in a panel on China at the Hudson Institute in Washington exposing conditions in the XUAR’s network of internment camps, where up to 1.8 million Uyghurs are believed to have been held.”
“The evidence shows that in 2018, three Uyghur regions alone mobilized at least 570,000 persons into cotton-picking operations through the government’s coercive labor training and transfer scheme.”
Force-feeding of pork in concentration camps and detention centres is rampant, former detainees reveal.
The tech giant Apple has reportedly been campaigning against a federal bill aimed at stopping the ongoing and prevalent use of forced labour of the local Uyghur population.
The factory at the heart of this latest outbreak, Shuchang Garment, is manned by a predominantly female labour force picked from within Xinjiang.