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Xinjiang

June 2024

  • People stand in a line outside the High Court in London

    NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules

  • A large illuminated display reading 'Shein' with clothes rails in the background

    Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation

  • Two women pass through a secure entrance to a bazaar in Xinjiang

    China has renamed hundreds of Uyghur villages and towns, say human rights groups

  • Pro-China supporters and anti-China protesters wave flags and banners

    Labor urged to put human rights record before trade as Chinese premier visits Canberra

February 2024

  • Chimneys and gas tanks at a BASF chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany

    German firm BASF to pull out of Xinjiang after Uyghur abuse claims

  • A BASF plant

    German firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over ‘gross abuses’ of Uyghurs

  • Two Uyghur women walk past a mural in Kashgar city, Xinjiang on 14 July 2023

    Rights and freedom
    Elderly Uyghur women imprisoned in China for decades-old religious ‘crimes’, leaked files reveal

  • Robots assemble cars in the BYD electric car factory in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China

    Carmakers may be using aluminium made by Uyghur forced labour, NGO investigation finds

January 2024

  • China’s UN ambassador, Chen Xu (R), waits along with the Chinese delegation at the UN headquarters

    China’s human rights record criticised at UN as it faces rare scrutiny of policies

  • Students wear orange jumpers in a classroom

    Thermo Fisher stops sale of DNA kits in Tibet after activists raised fears of rights abuses

December 2023

  • A Uyghur woman through a street silhouetted against the light

    Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns

  • Closeup of back of a man's shaven head as he clutches it with his hands, in a gesture of despair.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures

  • NHS staff in PPE

    At least 20% of NHS suppliers at ‘high risk’ of modern slavery use, review says

  • Worker in textile factory

    ‘Substantial volume’ of clothing tied to Uyghur forced labour entering EU, says study

November 2023

  • Uyghur women picking cotton in a field in Xinjiang

    The age of extinction
    BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China

    Credits sourced from carbon project that was centred on biomass power plant in Xinjiang, investigation finds
  • Workers pick cotton in a field

    What do we know about forced labour in Xinjiang?

    Beijing says labour transfers are poverty alleviation tool, but research raises concerns schemes are not voluntary
  • Ikram Nurmehmet

    Rights and freedom
    Uyghur film-maker claims he was tortured by authorities in China

    Ikram Nurmehmet, a director known for his Uyghur protagonists, is facing charges related to ‘separatism’ and ‘terrorism’

October 2023

  • Ikram Nurmehmet is under arrest in China.

    Rights and freedom
    Trial of Uyghur film-maker to begin in China this week

    Ikram Nurmehmet, a director known for featuring Uyghur protagonists, was arrested in May and is being held on unknown charges
  • Balmore water treatment works, East Dunbartonshire

    Scottish Water admits solar farms could use parts linked to China’s forced labour camps

    Company has installed tens of thousands of solar panels – at 66 sites – which it now suspects are linked to slave labour
  • A facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, China's northwestern Xinjiang region, 2019.

    You may be eating fish caught and processed by Uyghur forced labor

    Kenneth Roth
    The US government has taken some steps to block Chinese imports made with forced labor. Britain and the EU have done shamefully little
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