A few days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, several Uyghur activists and human rights experts at a webinar argued that the Winter Games will implicitly approve of
A few days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, several Uyghur activists and human rights experts at a webinar argued that the Winter Games will implicitly approve of
hospital care compared with previous coronavirus variants. president biden has signed into a bill that requires all companies to prove that goods imported from china s xinjiang region were not produced with forced labour. washington says genocide is being committed against the uyghur muslim minority there an assertion china denies. us firms doing business in xinjiang, including coca cola, nike and apple, have criticised the legislation. dr erkin sidick is a uyghur american and he is president of the uyghur projects foundation. hejoins me now from los angeles. thank you forjoining us. the vote passed unanimously and thatis vote passed unanimously and that is quite unusual in america so what affect you think you will have? we are very happy about this bill. it means that part of the work being by retrieving employed as forced labour workers in
goods imported from the region were not produced with forced labour. us firms doing business in xinjiang, including coca cola, nike and apple, have criticised the legislation. i asked dr erkin sidick, president of the uyghur projects foundation, what effect he hopes the bill will have. in our interview, dr sidick refers to the xinjiang region as east turkestan . we are very happy about this bill. it means that part of the uyghurs who are currently being employed as forced labour workers in china s factories in east turkestan will be released, so we are very happy about that. so you do think it will have an immediate impact for thousands of people currently in forced labour in xinjiang? actually, it is much more than that. my information tells us that more than 3 million uyghurs currently are working as forced labour workers in east turkestan.
a law requiring proof that goods imported from xinjiang were not produced by forced labour. china has accused the united states of spreading lies and us firms doing business in xinjiang, including coca cola, nike, and apple, have criticised the legislation. dr erkin sidick is president of the uyghur projects foundation in los angeles. he said the us sanction is a start but more needs to be done. the reason is the father, mother, and children, they all separated from each other, and the mothers can only go home once a week to see their kids. so this is a horrible situation, now this bill may force some of those companies to close down. if that happens, some of the people will get be free, so that s a big victory for us. the bbc s robin brant is in shanghai for us. can you get your reaction to