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US Warns Businesses Over China’S Xinjiang Province BBC/ 2021-07-14 12- 18 July 2021 Weekly Journal of Press US warns businesses over China’s Xinjiang province BBC/ 2021-07-14 The US has issued a tough new warning to companies about doing business in China’s Xinjiang province. American firms that still have supply chain and investment ties in the region were told they “could run a high riskof violating US law.” Washington cited evidence of Uyghurs have been detained at camps whe- genocide and other human re allegations of torture, forced labour and rights abuses in Xinjiang. sexual abuse have emerged alleged human rights abuses and surveillance in Xinjiang. China has denied previous allegations that the regi- Earlier this month, French authori- on’s Uyghur population has been subjected to human ties opened a “crimes against huma- rights abuses. nity” probe into four fashion brands. The Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory was pub- Uniqlo, Zara-owner Inditex and Fren- lished jointly by the State Department, Treasury, Com- ch textile firm SMCP deny the claims, merce, Homeland Security, Labor and the Office of the while Skechers declined to comment. US Trade Representative. The move came after complaints “Businesses and individuals that do not exit supply from the European Uyghur Institute chains, ventures, and/or investments connected to and other pressure groups that the Xinjiang could run a high risk of violating US law,” said retailers were profiting from the use the updated advisory, which was first released in July of forced labour. last year. The Xinjiang region produces 85% In a press statement, Secretary of State Antony Blin- of China’s cotton and accounts for ken said the document noted that the Chinese “go- about a fifth of global supplies. vernment is perpetrating genocide and crimes against Uyghurs have been detained at humanity in Xinjiang”. camps where allegations of torture, The announcement comes as Western governments forced labour and sexual abuse have harden their stance over companies operating in the emerged. China has denied these north-western region of China. claims saying the camps are “re-e- On Friday, the Biden administration added 14 Chinese ducation” facilities aimed at lifting firms and other entities to its economic blacklist over Uyghurs out of poverty. 1 Weekly Journal of Press 12- 18 July 2021 U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China’s Xinjiang Reuters, Michael Martina, 2021-07-15 The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goo- The U.S. Senate passed legis - ds manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced lation on Wednesday to ban labor and therefore banned under the 1930 Tariff the import of products from Act, unless otherwise certified by U.S. authorities. China’s Xinjiang region, the Passed by unanimous consent, the bipartisan me- latest effort in Washington to asure would shift the burden of proof to importers. punish Beijing for what U.S. The current rule bans goods if there is reasonable officials say is an ongoing evidence of forced labor. genocide against Uyghurs The bill must also pass the House of Representa- and other tives before it can be sent to the White House for Muslim groups. President Joe Biden to sign into law. It was not im- mediately clear when that might take place. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who introduced the legislation with Democrat Jeff Merkley, called on the House to act quickly. “We will not turn a blind eye to the CCP’s ongoing crimes against humanity, and we will not allow corporations a free pass to profit from those horri- fic abuses,” Rubio said in a statement. “No American corporation should profit from these abuses. No American consumers should be inadvertently purchasing products from slave la- bor,” Merkley said. Democratic and Republican aides said they expe- cted the measure would get strong support in the House, noting the House approved a similar mea- on Xinjiang tomatoes, cotton and some sure nearly unanimously last year. solar products. The bill would go beyond steps already taken to The Biden administration has increased secure U.S. supply chains in the face of allegations sanctions, and on Tuesday issued an ad- of rights abuses in China, including existing bans visory warning businesses they could be 2 12- 18 July 2021 Weekly Journal of Press in violation of U.S. law if operations are lin- ked even indirectly to surveillance networks in Xinjiang. Rights groups, researchers, former residents and some Western lawmakers and officials say Xinjiang authorities have facilitated for- ced labor by detaining around a million Uy- ghurs and other primarily Muslim minorities since 2016. Reporting by Michael Martina; additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Leslie Adler UK parliament unanimously votes for ‘diplomatic boycott’ of Beijing Olympics Phayul Newsdesk, July 17, 2021 Nonbinding move shows growing concern over Xinjiang among Western legislators DHARAMSHALA, July 17: The UK parlia- MP Tim Loughton tabled the motion last ment on Thursday unanimously backed the week urging PM Johnson to condemn human motion calling for a ‘diplomatic boycott’ of rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet. “How on the Beijing Winter Olympics to be held in earth does a genocidal, industrial-scale hu- Beijing in February. Although a non-binding man rights-abusing, free speech intolerant resolution, the motion stated that the inter- and planet vandalising regime square with national Games should not be entertained [Olympic] ideals?” asked Loughton befo- as China continues to commit mass atroci- re the voting began on Thursday. He added ties in occupied regions. that Britain should decline invitations for its 3 Weekly Journal of Press 12- 18 July 2021 representatives to attend the Olympi- cs next year unless the Chinese gover- nment “ends the atrocities”. The Chair of the All-Party Parliamen- tary Group for Tibet Loughton who is currently subject to Chinese sanctions said, “The awarding of the 2008 Oly- mpics to Beijing was accompanied by the International Olympics Committee promising that the Games would act as a catalyst for human rights reform UK parliament in session (Photo/Sky Sports) in China.” Labour MP Navendu Mishra also spoke about the 2008 protests du- torship. Sixty million people died as a result of our ring the Summer Olympics, “At the last failure when we appeased them and we are on the Olympics held in China in 2008, thou- same course today,” he further added. sands of Tibetans took to the streets to The European parliament earlier this month voted protest and were brutally suppressed, through a resolution with a large majority that cal- with hundreds killed. The full number led on the European Commission, European Council of deaths remains unknown.” and EU countries to “decline invitations to govern- Conservative former leader Sir Iain ment representatives and diplomats to attend the Duncan Smith, also one of the sancti- Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics unless the Chinese oned MPs, said allowing China to go Government demonstrates a verifiable improve- ahead with the Olympics next year ment in the human rights situation in Hong Kong, is similar to “appeasing Hitler”. “We the Xinjiang Uyghur Region, Tibet, Inner Mongolia have forgotten what happened when and elsewhere in China.” we appeased another ghastly dicta- 4 12- 18 July 2021 Weekly Journal of Press Noted Uyghur Folklore Professor Serving Prison Term in China’s Xinjiang RFA, 2021-07-13 Chinese authorities arres- ted Rahile Dawut in late 2017 during a purge of Uyghur intellectuals. An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and et- hnographer who disappeared in Uyghur professor Rahile Dawut talks with a man in East China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autono- Turkistan in an undated photo. mous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confir- believed to be arrested and detained in one of the many med as being imprisoned by aut- internment camps in a mass incarceration campaign la- horities, according to her former unched that year by Chinese authorities, who to date co-workers at Xinjiang University. have not provided information on her whereabouts or the charges against her. Rahile Dawut, 55, created and di- Rahile was in fact detained along with other members rected the university’s Minorities of the Uyghur intellectual and cultural elite, sentenced, Folklore Research Center and wro- and is now in prison, RFA’s Uyghur Service discovered te dozens of articles in internatio- early this month through a series of interviews with nal journals and a number of bo- employees of Xinjiang University. oks, including studies on Islamic Rahile, one of many Uyghur intellectuals silenced by sacred sites in Central Asia, and Chinese authorities as part of a campaign to remove presented her work at conferences influential educators, disappeared suddenly from pub- around the world. lic life, along with Tashpolat Teyip, Arslan Abdulla, and An anthropologist by training, she other prominent professors at Xinijang University in the disappeared in December 2017, XUAR’s capital Urumqi (in Chinese, Wulumuqi). 5 Weekly Journal of Press 12- 18 July 2021 A female staffer in the administrative office certain they had detained her.” at Xinjiang University told RFA that Rahile China has held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs in a had been out of work for some time, and that network of detention camps since 2017, with authorities had notified the university that smaller numbers of Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, fel- she had been sentenced to prison. low Turkic-speaking people, also incarcera- “Yes, they notified us,” she said. ted in the system. Beijing says the camps are The staffer, who spoke on condition of anon- vocational training or re-education centers ymity due to the sensitivity of the case, also aimed at combating extremism in the XUAR. told RFA that the university issued an internal By late 2018, Akida received information that notice to the faculty about Rahile’s senten- her mother was being held in custody.
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