Logos of the Uniqlo clothing chain (Provided by Fast Retailing Co.)
Uniqlo brand cotton shirts were blocked at the Port of Los Angeles in January based on a U.S. import ban over forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region.
Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, on May 19 denied use of materials made with forced labor.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped the shipments over an alleged violation of the U.S. government’s import ban on goods made from cotton produced in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Washington suspects that Beijing is using ethnic minorities there for forced labor.
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Ramadan in China: Faithful dwindle under limits on religion
07.05.2021
Tursunjan Mamat, a practicing Muslim in western China s Xinjiang region, said he s fasting for Ramadan but his daughters, ages 8 and 10, are not. Religious activity including fasting is not permitted for minors, he explained.
The 32-year-old ethnic Uighur wasn t complaining, at least not to a group of foreign journalists brought to his home outside the city of Aksu by government officials, who listened in on his responses. It seemed he was giving a matter-of-fact description of how religion is practiced under rules set by China s Communist Party. My children know who our holy creator is, but I don t give them detailed religious knowledge, he said, speaking through a translator. After they reach 18, they can receive religious education according to their own will.
China lashes out over NZ s Uighur human rights abuses declaration
(Photo / Getty) Thu, 6 May 2021, 5:14PM
China has lashed out after New Zealand s Parliament declared severe human rights abuses are occurring there against the Uighur minority, saying it will harm the mutual trust between the countries.
Parliament yesterday unanimously supported a motion to declare it was gravely concerned about the severe human rights abuses taking place against Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region .
MPs called on the Government to work with the United Nations, international partners, and to work with all relevant instruments of international law to bring these abuses to an end .