China's Forced Labour Linked To 100 Global Brands, Investigation Finds - Worthy Christian News

China's Forced Labour Linked To 100 Global Brands, Investigation Finds - Worthy Christian News

by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief BEIJING (Worthy News) – At least tens of thousands of China’s ethnic Uyghurs have been forcibly moved to factories far from their homes in the western region of Xinjiang, a new investigation revealed. The displacement of minority workers up to 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) away is an effort by the Chinese government to get around a U.S. ban on imports from Xinjiang, a global symbol of forced lab…

China Finds Way To Quietly Keep Its Forced Labor System Alive

China has been shipping detained Uyghur Muslims out of the Xinjiang province in order to skirt US restrictions on imports using their forced labor

Time and again there are reports that the Uighurs are being used for forced labour in China. However, a search now shows the extent to which people are being sent across the People's Republic to work. German companies may also be affected.

Chinese authorities send Uyghurs to work. They can hardly resist it. German corporations also seem to benefit from it.

The Chinese government is finding a way to ban the U.S. ban on Xinjiang imports by moving the gurus to factory jobs outside the region. David Pierson, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, investigated, together with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Der Spiegel, how workers are moved to factories that produce products for major global brands. The post How the uguhurs in China are forced to work in factories in factories appea…

According to media reports, Chinese authorities send tens of thousands of Uyghurs to work in factories far from their home region of Xinjiang every year – often under poor conditions and presumably under duress. Following a joint investigation, Der Spiegel, the New York Times, and London's The Bureau of Investigative Journalism report on 75 factories in eleven provinces where members of the Muslim minority are forced to work. Reports from party …