2020-12-15T16:00:01+00:00

Report: Hundreds of Thousands of Uyghurs Forcibly Used in Cotton Harvesting

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Hundreds of thousands of members of ethnic minorities are being forced to work in cotton fields in China's Xinjiang province, according to a report. In 2018, at least 570,000 people were reportedly forced to harvest cotton in three Uyghur-majority regions in Xinjiang as part of a government forced labor program, the Center For Global Policy report said Monday, citing government documents.

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