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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.

The UK may boycott the Winter Olympics in China due to the wide-scale systemic repression and persecution of the Uyghur Muslims.

"If an African country was doing what China is doing, ministers would be all over it, but because of China’s size and influence at the UN, it runs away."

Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress described the white paper as “just another attempt by the CCP [Chinese Communist party] to lie and shirk responsibility for its atrocities, just as they lied about the existence of the internment camps for over a year.”

Earlier this week, the clothing retailer H&M announced it was ending its relationship with a Xinjiang-based yarn mill after accusations that the supplier was engaged in ‘forced labour’.

Disney’s latest blockbuster faces renewed backlash after filming in Xinjiang, where over one million Uyghur Muslims are held in “re-education” camps.

In a move to suppress the birth rates of the Muslim minority, China has gone to extreme lengths in the form of forced sterilisation, abortions, and removal of wombs.

“It is important for the world to say that Muslim Lives Matter.”

A group of cross-party MPs have sent a letter to the home secretary highlighting increasing evidence of genocide against the Uyghur minority in China.