A new report says Chinese authorities have been sending Muslim-minority Uighurs from concentration camps to factories where they are forced into labor
have been sent from “re-education” camps in China’s Xinjiang province to factories across China, where they are forced to make consumer goods for the world.
Many Uighurs are coerced into these programs through surveillance, police control, and the threat of detention or family members’ detention, the ASPI report said, contrary to Chinese authorities’ claims that the work programs are voluntary.mass detention Labor transfers from Xinjiang to inland provinces stretch back more than a decade. Uighur workers were already being sent to coastal factory towns in the early 2000s through programs that drew similar criticism from human rights groups for being coercive.
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