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Over 500,000 Uighurs forced into cotton-picking, report says

FRANCE24, 15 Dec 2020
#China is forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic #Uighurs and other minorities to pick cotton by hand, a US think-tank said, sparking calls for governments to ban all cotton imports from the #Xinjiang region. Adrian Zenz, a researcher on China's persecution of the Uighurs, talks to FRANCE 24.

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