REPORT: Uighur Slaves Forced to Work in Apple Supplier's Factory - National Legal & Policy Center
An iPhone assembly worker in China/PHOTO: DanielFoster437 via Flickr (CC) As reports increased this year that China has greatly expanded its facilities that detain and utilize Uighurs as slave labor, new evidence indicates a key supplier for Apple Inc. is using transferred workers from among the Muslim minority ethnic group. In an article published Tuesday by the Washington Post, the Tech Transparency Project revealed documents that indicate the Chinese government is transporting involuntary laborers from the region of Xinjiang – where Uighurs have been reportedly abused and undergo â...