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CHINA SLAVES in 2021 Report warns of Uighur forced labour in solar panel supply chain Beijing’s Uighur labour programmes are ‘tantamount to forcible transfer of populations and enslavement’, report says. A new report warns against the use of Uighur forced labour by China in the global supply chain of solar panel manufacturing. The study by the United Kingdom’s Sheffield Hallam University said Chinese “labour transfers” in the northwest Xinjian region, where rights groups say the Muslim-minority Uighurs have been subjected to persecution and internment, is deployed in “an environment of unprecedented coercion, undergirded by the constant threat of re-education and internment”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/report-warns-of-uighur-forced-labour-in-solar-panel-supply-chain?fbclid=IwAR1SNDEArHXjbHZAy2mvdUnihZURkNlT7ZlcyQPMiOd1BH9p9-c2ZGrNEO0