In September, US Customs and Border Protection said it would seize any shipments of human hair from the Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park in southern Xinjiang. Nicholas Bequelin, the group's Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, tells Sun Online: “We have documented an intensifying government campaign of mass internment, intrusive surveillance, political indoctrination and forced cultural assimilation against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups living in Xinjiang. Following allegations of forced labour being used in Apple's supply chain, its spokesman said: "We have found no evidence of any forced labor on Apple production lines and we plan to continue monitoring.". (RELATED: DHS Blocks Cotton Imports From Chinese Slave Labor Camps From Entering US) “This report estimates that more than 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps,” a summary of the report said. "This holiday season, CBP is urging consumers to think twice before they buy cheap goods online and in stores. Here reportedly 25 per cent of its workforce are Uighur Muslims. "The government chose them to come to OFilm, they didn’t choose it.". The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) publishes some data on trafficking-related investigations and convictions. China’s Foreign Ministry has also rebuffed the claims. Share this with freedom lovers everywhere. At least 17 of those companies were found to be participating in the Uighurs’ "labour transfer programme", according to the New York Times. Raab appeared to be targeting China's mistreatment of internees in Xinjiang, saying it was Britain's “moral duty” to respond to the “far-reaching” evidence of human rights abuses being perpetrated in Xinjiang. “China’s detainment of Uyghur Muslims and their use of forced labor is an absolute travesty,” Colorado Republican Congressman Ken Buck told The Federalist. Our team spent months investigating companies in China that use Uighur labor to produce P.P.E., but we only realized how widespread the issue really is when we tracked a … The classic method for combating forced labor relies on careful audits of global supply chains. Ms Cranston said: "One fifth of all cotton production can be presumed to be linked to the forced labour. “China’s detainment of Uyghur Muslims and their use of forced labor is an absolute travesty,” Colorado Republican Congressman Ken Buck told The Federalist. Ned Ryun was on last night discussing the over 80 companies that are benefiting either directly or indirectly from Chinese slave labor of their ethnic minorities. Part 2: “Modern-Day Slavery”: China Is Forcing Muslims into Forced Labor, Prison & Indoctrination Camps Daily News Digest Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now! This estimate does not include figures on organ trafficking. "Until now, this is something the Chinese authorities have refused to do.”. However, it was impossible to track specific products to specific companies. Last Christmas, Florence Widdicombe, from Tooting, south London, was stunned when she opened the new box of charity cards and found the scrawled message inside from what appeared to be a slave worker begging for help. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. But a search on the website of global trade data firm Panjiva Inc by The Sun Online found the company made 25 shipments to the UK of greetings cards and kids colouring books in 2019. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. "The apparel, hair extensions, laptops, jewelry, cosmetics, and other products that you buy for friends and family may be made under conditions of modern slavery.". Countries across the world have condemned it and made slavery a punishable offense. On 12 January 2021, the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, announced if British businesses fail to ensure their supply chains are free of slave labour could face fines. Quantities of migrant labor have caused increases in the exploitation of child labor in China. UK businesses must investigate where they get their cotton to avoid buying material grown by slave labour, according to a member of an influential parliamentary committee. In 2016, MPS reported investigating 1,004 cases of human trafficking and arresting 2,036 suspects. However, government policies concerning urban migration and public education also play a large (Image: Screenshot / YouTube) Slavery is said to be a system that belonged to the past. But in China, slave labor camps prosper with the blessings of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Campaigners are calling on fashion companies to be more vigilant about their supply chains to avoid unwittingly outsourcing their products to the companies. Chloe Cranston, from campaign group Anti-Slavery International, told The Sun Online persecuted Muslim Uighurs in China were forced to work to supply the world’s largest fashion companies. Nike in the past has been shown to be more than just dabbing a toe in China’s forced labor market, with one factory reportedly producing 8 million pairs of shoes per year in Qingdao. The Washington Post visited the factory and said it was like a prison, with barbed wire, watchtowers and cameras. Of those cases, 4… Chinese citizen and foreign victims, primarily women and girls, are unlawfully kept in a situation in which they are raped and physically and psychologically harmed in other ways. An Uighur woman told them: "We can walk around, but we can't go back [to Xinjiang on our own.”. According to United States Government’s 2020 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, Christmas decorations are believed to be major slave product. OFilm has not commented on the allegations. In September a leaked Beijing document revealed the scale of its detention camps — as officials say up to eight million people have gone through "training" at state "gulags". They have to work under risky circumstances. One woman, who worked in the factory for several weeks alongside the Uighurs, told The Associated Press: "They don’t let them come out. Like the Atlantic slave trade, forced labour in China can seem too convenient to challenge. The unvarnished — and horrific — truth is that the Chinese party-state has institutionalized slavery, ramped it up to industrial scale, and offered slaves to foreign companies. In a report issued in March, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, listed Nike and Coca-Cola as companies suspected of ties to forced labor … © 2019 American Majority - All Rights Reserved, How To Avoid Slacktivism in your Advocacy, Episode 46 | Playing Games with our Elections, Episode 44 | 2020 Wasn't a Total Disaster, Episode 42 | How Billionaires Funded the Left, Episode 40 | There's A Lot On the Line in Georgia. "Our ongoing diligence has not found evidence of employment of Uyghurs, or other ethnic minorities from the XUAR, elsewhere in our supply chain in China. Sexual slavery in China is sexual exploitation and slavery that occurs in the People's Republic of China.. Background. Want to know which companies those are? FROM your phone, TV and trainers to your clothes and Covid masks, anti-slavery campaigners have warned there's a very good chance part of them was made by political prisoners in China. The US Department of Commerce had early in July designated OFilm Group among a list of eleven Chinese companies that it accuses of taking part in human rights violations against the Uighur people. Ms Cranston said: "This is the largest mass detention of a ethnic and religious identity since World War 2.". Read the full Australian Strategic Policy Institute study HERE. Part 2: “Modern-Day Slavery”: China Is Forcing Muslims into Forced Labor, Prison & Indoctrination Camps Daily News Digest Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now! After being contacted by The Sun Online, Apple referred to its statement it made in July where it said it had launched a detailed investigation of OFilm Tech after allegations of forced labour surfaced. Laptops, computers, and mobile phones are the top product category at risk of modern slavery imported by China. This involved dispatching independent third-party investigators to the factory and then conducting surprise audits in June and July, including verifying employee documentation and interviewing with workers in local languages, it said. "The evidence paints a harrowing picture and showed the practice of barbarism we had hoped lost to another era.". Slave labor camps on the far reaches of China’s western border are responsible for some of Nike’s products. 53 Fish imports from various countries considered at-risk amounted to nearly US$1.5 billion. to your inbox each morning. The factory has denied using slave labour and claimed the allegations were politically motivated. In a statement to The Sun Online, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said: "Forced labor is modern slavery. One manufacturer allegedly using slaves them was the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co, which is located in the city of Laixi. He said his treatment led him to attempt suicide just before his release. The Uighurs (pronounced Wee-goors) are a Muslim ethnic and religious minority in western China. Here’s the list. He was not allowed to talk to the nearly 6,000 others held in the same camp, and had to chant “Long live Xi Jinping” before meals. Indeed, forced labour allows it to defray the costs of repression. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. China's Shocking Treatment of Minorities Exposed It comes as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the UK would fine any companies importing and selling these "barbaric" products. There is … Nike told The Sun Online it was concerned about reports of forced labor in, and connected to, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Share this with freedom lovers everywhere. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak that started in Wuhan, China there has been heightened scrutiny of the country’s questionable business practices … Nike announced it was reviewing its supply chains after the allegations first emerged in March. In China, slave labor camps prosper with the blessings of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The XPCC is a Chinese paramilitary organization that U.S. officials allege uses slave labor from Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region who are reportedly forced to live in camps. It is claimed they work in the OFilm factory, in Nanchang, which boasts customers including Apple. In 2015, China imported a total value of US$1.6 billion of these electronic products from Malaysia, which has been found to use forced labour to produce them. The children are usually between the age of 5 and 17. Sometimes we have no choice, we work till dawn. Many of them have been enslaved by the Chinese government under the guise of offering them an escape from poverty and preventing the spread of religious fanaticism. Here they have allegedly been churning out Nike’s Shox or Airmax. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. When you work all night you become dizzy and your eyes hurt because you can't take any breaks. SLAVE LABOUR China ‘using Uighur slaves in hellish camps to make coronavirus face masks to use and export around the world’ Jon Rogers; 20 Jul 2020, 16:10; Updated: 21 Jul 2020, 8:08; CHINA … “Those cheap cotton goods you may be buying for family and friends during this season of giving, if coming from China may have been made by slave labor in some of the most egregious human rights violations existing today in the modern world,” he said. Huge numbers from within this minority group, who are from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the north-west of the country, have allegedly been locked up and hired out by Communist party officials to greedy factory bosses. Only four companies in Xinjiang produced medical grade protective equipment before the pandemic, according to China’s National Medical Products Administration. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Chloe Cranston, from campaign group Anti-Slavery International, told The Sun Online persecuted Muslim Uighurs in China were forced to work to supply the world’s largest fashion companies. Greetings cards are another product, which human rights and anti-slavery campaigners say are made by forced labour. The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were over 3.8 million people living in conditions of modern slavery in China, a prevalence of 2.8 victims for every thousand people in the country. ", Sage's 3rd wave warnings of high deaths & masks for YEAR 'downplay jab roll out', Owner pictured with 'timebomb' dogs that 'mauled great-gran to death in garden', Driver, 34, in court charged with causing death of baby on his first outing, Dad of woman, 29, who died after Brazilian bum lift operation is found dead, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. It’s one thing to go on a Black Lives Matter demo, another to tear up your phone contract. They have to work in extreme conditions for long hours. Did you see American Majority’s Founder and CEO on Tucker Carlson Tonight? Here we look at the slave products allegedly on sale in the UK and other Western countries which are made in what China chillingly calls "re-education facilities". Apple has said it has launched a investigation after the allegations, but had found no evidence of forced labour used in its products. Learn how to run for local office or identify new leaders in your community - sign the pledge today! ASPI estimates at least 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang and assigned to factories in a range of supply chains including electronics, textiles, and automotives under a central government policy known as ‘Xinjiang Aid’. A number contract sexually transmitted diseases, and abused, beaten, and starved. Uighur prisoners have also allegedly been forced into making computer screens, cameras, and fingerprint scanners for a supplier to foreign tech companies. Tesco, where the cards were bought, suspended use of the factory Zhejiang Yunguang Printing in Shanghai. One camp survivor, Kairat Samarkan, told Amnesty he was forced to stand in a fixed position for 12 hours when first detained. to your inbox each morning. Slavery is said to be a system that belonged to the past. In China, as in many areas of the world, poverty is a key player in modern slavery, propelling peasants into positions of bonded labor and young children into dangerous and tedious jobs. Countries across the world have condemned it and made slavery a punishable offense. According to an online victims' database, dozens of Uighurs have died while in custody or soon after their release. A spokesperson said: “Related to the Taekwang Group, when reports of the situation in XUAR began to surface in 2019 Taekwang stopped hiring new employees from the XUAR to its Qingdao facility and an independent third-party audit confirmed there are no longer any employees from XUAR at the facility. Chloe Cranston, from campaign group Anti-Slavery International, told The Sun Online persecuted Muslim Uighurs in China were forced to work to … Ms Cranston said: "One fifth of all cotton production can be presumed to be linked to the forced labour. Ned Ryun was on last night discussing the over 80 companies that are benefiting either directly or indirectly from Chinese slave labor of their ethnic minorities. It has also been alleged that some sports brands were outsourcing manufacturing of trainers to factories staffed by the detained Uighurs. An investigation by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has implicated Apple in profiting from prisoner slave labour in China. If the Chinese Communist party has a reserve army of forced labour, it has no need to spend on technology. HUMAN rights group Amnesty International has called on China to allow independent experts to assess the situation in Xinjiang if it really does have "nothing to hide". "Based on evolving information, we strengthened our audit protocols to identify emerging risks related to potential labor transfer programs. Washington Post / Getty Images The Trump administration is … Activists have accused the Communist regime of being engaged in the world's biggest forced labour outrage since the Nazis. Be the first to receive news, updates and notifications about American Majority trainings and more. Thousands of Muslims from China's Uighur minority group are working under coercive conditions at factories that supply some of the world's biggest brands, a … The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. The estimated 2.9 million people in modern slavery in China "includes the forced labour of men, women and children in many parts of the economy, including … “But if China has nothing to hide, it should allow independent UN experts to assess the situation and allow Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minorities to freely communicate with their relatives overseas. Look around your home and it's claimed there is a very good chance something will have been made in cruel factories, which are staffed by inmates from nightmarish "gulag" style camps. Christians are also forced to work in labor camps in the name of "re-education." These workers were transferred from labor camps in the Xinjiang region of western China, WaPo reported. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, The products which human rights and anti-slavery campaigners claim are made in part or fully in China's forced labour camps, A still from drone footage which claims to show Uighur prisoners being piled onto trains in China, Satellite photo allegedly showing a re-education camp for the detained Uighurs, Drone footage that emerged last year is thought to show scores of Uighur being loaded onto trains, Watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uighurs are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, Xinjiang, The fences along the side of the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co. factory, There are watchtowers with cameras pointed in all directions and high barbed wire fences atop the walls, A major product is trainers which are then shipped to the west, Xinjiang is home to around 25million people, A local stops for a smoke near the entrance to an OFILM factory in Nanchang, Workers at an electronics factory in in Aketao County, Xinjiang, work as part of the 'poverty alleviation' programme - or so the Chinese Communist party claims, Six-year-old Florence Widdicombe, from Tooting, south London, was shocked after discovering a message in her Christmas card, A translation of the note in a Tesco Christmas card from a desperate prisoner in Shanghai - his handwriting changed to protect his identity, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of New York seized hair extensions made of human hair, Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, The products were part of shipment of almost 13 tons of hair products worth over £600,000 dollars, Satellite images show a network of suspected detention camps built by the Chinese government since 2017, An estimated 260 sites have been constructed across the Xinjiang province, The force labour claims have drawn comparisons with the dark days of World War 2 when the Nazis enslaved millions of Jews and people in occupied countries, Protesters speaking out against the Chinese treatment of Uighurs, Riot police clash with protesters during a Uighur demonstration in Hong Kong, Leaked documents detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Uigher Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps, Dominic Raab announced the UK would fine any companies, new box of charity cards and found the scrawled message i, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). 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