The organizations which extended their full support were “Remember June Fourth”, Chinese Solidarity Campaign, Democracy for Hong Kong, The World Uyghur Congress, Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities, Labour Movement Solidarity for Hong Kong, Uyghur Solidarity Campaign UK, Tibetan Community in Britain. Prominent leaders from these organisations addressed the gathering.
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New forced Uyghur labour revelations hit Apple, Tesla, Amazon Submitted by martin on 20 May, 2021 - 11:34
Author: Ben Tausz
Seven more companies in corporate tech giants’ supply chains have been linked to the Chinese state’s forced labour schemes conscripting Uyghurs.
Solidarity has reported on previous revelations about these schemes. This month, an investigation by tech journalists and human rights groups identified yet more businesses that received thousands of workers, manufacturing and assembling components for dozens of international brands. These include Apple, Amazon, IBM, Dell, Samsung, and Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Beijing claims that these are voluntary “poverty alleviation” programmes for the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other majority-Muslim indigenous peoples of Xinjiang province (the Chinese state’s name for colonised East Turkestan). However, those who decline to participate can be label