Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China Sun Online Desk 1st January, 2021 08:35:57 Employees in the workshop of Lens Technology in 2015 in Liuyang, a city in China’s Hunan province. (AFP/Getty Images) One of the oldest and most well-known iPhone suppliers has been accused of using forced Muslim labor in its factories, according to documents uncovered by a human rights group, adding new scrutiny to Apple’s human rights record in China. The documents, discovered by the Tech Transparency Project and shared exclusively with The Washington Post, detail how thousands of Uighur workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang were sent to work for Lens Technology. Lens also supplies Amazon and Tesla, according to its annual report.