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How to ensure your clothes haven t been made using Uighur labour
Marks & Spencer has pledged to stop buying cotton from the devastated region - but will other brands join them?
18 February 2021 • 6:00am
A protest in Turkey against Chinese oppression of the Uighur community
Credit: AP
Earlier this month, an astounding BBC report was released, detailing the ways in which Uighur women have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured in detention camps in Xinjiang, western China.
Or perhaps it wasn’t as astounding as all that. Horrific as the details are, we have known about the presence of these camps and the appalling treatment of the Uighurs – an ethnic-minority Muslim group who are also Chinese nationals – for years.