Thread by @misszing, I've heard so many awful stories about what's happening in the Uighur [...]

I've heard so many awful stories about what's happening in the Uighur concentration camps but this has absolutely broken me (cw: rape) https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216

Hey @UNIQLO_UK @muji_net, are you aware you're selling cotton picked by actual concentration camp prisoners? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chinese-cotton-uk-government-important-uighur-muslim-labour-a9478501.html

(I guess Muji must know since it talks about cotton "delicately and wholly handpicked in Xinjiang"

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Hey @UNIQLO_UK @muji_net, are you aware you're selling cotton picked by actual concentration camp prisoners? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chinese-cotton-uk-government-important-uighur-muslim-labour-a9478501.html(I guess Muji must know since it talks about cotton "delicately and wholly handpicked in Xinjiang" )

Lots of people asking what they can do about the Uighur camps. Write to your MP calling on them to:
- Formally recognise and condemn genocide in Xinjiang
- Push for Magnitsky sanctions against the Chinese officials involved
- Support a ban on the import of Xinjiang cotton

Magnitsky sanctions target human rights abusers and have already been issued against officials in Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. You can also sign this government petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300146

Petition: Impose sanctions on China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims

The UK Government plans to introduce “Magnitsky law”, a law which targets people who commit gross human rights violations. Through this law or alternative means, this petition urges the UK Government...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300146

Cotton is a huge export for China and 84% of it comes from Xinjiang. A ban would hopefully exert pressure on the Chinese govt to stop the forced labour and concentration camps https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chinese-cotton-uk-government-important-uighur-muslim-labour-a9478501.html

UK government urged to ban import of Chinese cotton 'made using Uigh…

The UK government has been urged to ban the import of cotton sourced from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, a region where Uighur Muslims are being put to work in factories in conditions that amount

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chinese-cotton-uk-government-important-uighur-muslim-labour-a9478501.html

If you shop at any of these brands, tell them that you're boycotting them until their supply chains are free of forced Uighur labour. IKEA have already cut ties with their suppliers over this (ht @CampaignUyghur)

There's also a protest outside the Chinese embassy on Weds 5th August in London. More details here https://twitter.com/CampaignUyghur/status/1284079146579050497?s=19

https://twitter.com/CampaignUyghur/status/1284079146579050497?s=19

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