US puts block on Chinese products from Uighur 'forced labor'

The US announced Monday it would block a range of Chinese products made by "forced labor" in the Xinjiang region, including from a "vocational" center that it branded a "concentration camp" for Uighur minorities.


The products included cotton, garments and electronics from specific manufacturers in the region.

"The Chinese government is engaged in systematic abuses against the Uighur people" and other minorities, said Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection Agency.

"Forced labor is an atrocious human rights abuse," he said.
 AFP