Thousands of forced laborers from the oppressed Uyghur minority are working in factories across China and building electronics for Apple, Samsung, Nintendo, Microsoft and others, according to a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), an independent think-tank.
The report conservatively estimates that around 80,000 people, mostly Uyghurs—a muslim ethnic minority in western China that has been subject to opression from Beijing—were forcibly moved from Xinjiang province to work in factories between 2017 and 2019.
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