Major Brands ‘Using Forced Uighur Labor’ in China, Report Says
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) identified at least 27 factories across China where detainees from camps in the western region of Xinjiang had been relocated since 2017.
“Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor, Uighurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors,” the think tank said in a report that estimates more than 80,ooo Uighurs were transferred to work in factors across China. Some were sent directly from detention camps. .
The brands, it added, included “Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.”
China’s Foreign Ministry rejected the report as having “no factual basis,” during a regular press briefing on Monday.