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