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| Uighur Muslims sent to work in Chinese factory that supplies Nike, report finds |
| 2020-03-02 |
| [Independent] The workers in standard-issue blue jackets stitch and glue and press together about eight million pairs of Nikes each year at Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co., a Nike supplier for more than 30 years and one of the US brand’s largest factories. They churn out pair after pair of Shox, with their springy shock absorbers in the heels, and the signature Air Max, plus seven other lines of sports shoes. However, hundreds of these workers did not choose to be here: they are ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region, sent here by local authorities in groups of 50 to toil far from home. After intense international criticism of the Communist Party’s campaign to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim Uighur minority by detaining more than a million people in re-education camps, party officials said last year that most have "graduated" and been released. But there is new evidence to show that the Chinese authorities are moving Uighurs into government-directed labour around the country as part of the central government’s Xinjiang Aid initiative. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Q. What do you call an Uighur who slacks off at the factory ? A. Uighur Mortis. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-03-02 11:39 |
| #4 China transfers detainees from Muslim internment camps to work as 'forced labour' in factories that supply top global brands, study reveals |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-03-02 09:21 |
| #3 it's ok, the assembly line points towards Mecca |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-03-02 06:46 |
| #2 I guess it's a step up from involuntary organ donor. |
| Posted by: Pliny Black9343 2020-03-02 06:45 |
| #1 Colin is getting his cut from slave labor. |
| Posted by: Sonny Black 2020-03-02 06:25 |