Forced labour is still widespread in the cotton industry of the Xinjiang region of China, despite Beijing’s claims to the contrary, argues the first research on the subject that was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal.
China’s mass internment of Uyghur Muslims, and other ethnic minorities, in the Xinjiang region of China, may have “somewhat abated” but forced labour programmes have only intensified, according to Adrian Zenz, a leading expert on human rights abuses in the region. Simon Glover reports.
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