Beijing insists no forced labor in Xinjiang, but latest U.N. report argues China may be engaged in 'enslavement as a crime against humanity.'
saying it was “reasonable to conclude” that Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being subjected to forced labor.
“[A] certain special rapporteur chooses to believe in lies and disinformation about Xinjiang spread by the U.S. and some other Western countries and anti-China forces, abuse his authority,” Wang said, referring to Tomoya Obokata, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.“There has never been 'forced labor’ in Xinjiang,” Wang said.
The letter’s signatories said many of the internment and indoctrination camps had recently closed, adding that “a substantial portion of internees from now-closed camps have been transferred to formal prisons after sham trials, while others have been placed in forced labor programs.”
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