China ‘intimidated university into halting Xinjiang research’

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Sheffield Hallam University reportedly halted work of global forced labour expert after China launched intimidation campaign

SHEFFIELD – Sheffield Hallam University reportedly came under a sustained campaign of intimidation from Chinese authorities in a bid to suppress the research of forced labour expert Laura Murphy.

Murphy, a former senior policy advisor to the Biden administration, has produced a number of studies linking forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China, which produces a fifth of the world's cotton, to global fashion brands.

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