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In November 2019, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on China to close down the camps. He also called on China to permit the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Xinjiang at the earliest possible date to make a report on the situation. [377] The French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs issued a statement on 27 ...
Re-education through labor (RTL; in Chinese, laodong jiaoyang 劳动教养, abbreviated láojiào 劳教) is a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China. The estimated number of detainees in re-education through labor camps is anywhere from 300,000 ( China Labor Bulletin , 2007) [ 1 ] to 2 million (Laogai Research ...
The products manufactured by prison labor in China are of low quality and have become unsalable on the open market in competition with products made by non-imprisoned paid labor. [12] In 1994 the laogai camps were renamed "prisons". [13] However, Chinese criminal law still stipulates that prisoners able to work shall "accept education and ...
A photograph of Shayang Re-education Through Labor camp in Hubei province, from the archives of the Laogai Museum. Re-education through labor (RTL; simplified Chinese: 劳动教养; traditional Chinese: 勞動教養; pinyin: láodòng jiàoyǎng), abbreviated laojiao (simplified Chinese: 劳教; traditional Chinese: 勞教; pinyin: láojiào) was a system of administrative detention in ...
U.S. officials believe Chinese authorities have established labor camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in China's western Xinjiang region. Beijing denies any abuses.
A Uyghur rights group has lost a High Court case against the UK Government over allegations British authorities have unlawfully failed to investigate cotton imports linked to forced labour camps ...
The Masanjia Labor Camp was established on 9 March 1956 [citation needed].In accordance with China's reeducation-through-labor practices, prisoners could be held at the camp without trial, often for petty crimes or political offenses.
Beijing controls and exploits Uyghur farmers through four main mechanisms: forced agricultural production, land grabbing by Chinese corporations, the forced labor of farmers and of camp detainees ...