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Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China Sun Online Desk 1st January, 2021 08:35:57 Employees in the workshop of Lens Technology in 2015 in Liuyang, a city in China’s Hunan province. (AFP/Getty Images) One of the oldest and most well-known iPhone suppliers has been accused of using forced Muslim labor in its factories, according to documents uncovered by a human rights group, adding new scrutiny to Apple’s human rights record in China. The documents, discovered by the Tech Transparency Project and shared exclusively with The Washington Post, detail how thousands of Uighur workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang were sent to work for Lens Technology. Lens also supplies Amazon and Tesla, according to its annual report. ....
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 “re-education” to learn fealty to the communists – to a Lens Technology factory in Hunan, in central China. ....
Apple s Longtime Supplier Accused Of Using Forced Muslim Labour In China Apple s Longtime Supplier Accused Of Using Forced Muslim Labour In China The documents, discovered by the Tech Transparency Project and shared exclusively with The Washington Post, detail how thousands of Uighur workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang were sent to work for Lens Technology. Updated: December 30, 2020 9:02 am IST Apple has faced criticism for its labor practices in the past, particularly in China. One of the oldest and most well-known iPhone suppliers has been accused of using forced Muslim labor in its factories, according to documents uncovered by a human rights group, adding new scrutiny to Apple s human rights record in China. ....