Central to issues with Shein’s labor practices is the use of cotton sourced from Xinjiang, which violates the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

Two of BGI’s subsidiaries—Xinjiang Silk Road BGI and Beijing Liuhe BGI—were added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2020 for being implicated in human rights violations in Xinjiang.

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may be able to argue they don’t know how their products are being used, it’s “not at all an exaggeration to say that Hikvision and Dahua are themselves directly responsible for the extraordinary scale of what has happened in Xinjiang.”

"The Subcommittee [on International Human Rights] was advised that Canada should adopt a 'reverse‑onus' policy for companies importing products from Xinjiang, or other parts of China where forced labour is prominent.

In 2019, the first Trump administration placed 28 public security bureaus and companies, including Meiya Pico and iFLYTEK, on a blacklist for their alleged roles in Beijing’s human rights violations against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.

In contrast, he pointed out that authorities in the United States have, as of December 2023, denied the entry of 2,547 shipments suspected of links to forced labour in Xinjiang or elsewhere in China.

Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Canada-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, has been sounding the alarm over the situation in Xinjiang and Uyghurs abroad.

The White House called it retaliation over a G7 statement condemning the CCP's aggression in the South China Sea and human rights violations in Tibet and Xinjiang.

In China, citizens from at least 12 countries or regions—including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—have disappeared in what appear to be arbitrary detentions, with many accused of national security offenses and taken to Xinjiang concentration

“Prioritizing trade over Xinjiang abuses or Hong Kong crackdowns emboldens Beijing leaving our citizens vulnerable,” Tay said.

On the one hand, the Biden administration embraced former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang.”

In 2006, in a closed-door trial, she was sentenced to five years in Xinjiang Women’s Prison, a term that was later extended by 20 months in 2010.

Several CCP officials have also been sanctioned in connection to abuses against Uyghurs, including Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.

Department of State highlighted instances of genocide and crimes against humanity targeting predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

The United States has sanctioned Hikvision over its alleged involvement in human rights abuses in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities face state-led oppression, including through re-education camps, forced

The senators also expressed concern about the importation of drugs that may be linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, where the U.S. government has determined that the Chinese regime is committing genocide and crimes against Uyghurs and other

Attorneys general from 21 states have also demanded answers from Temu about forced labor risks, Chinese Communist Party access to data, and whether the company complies with federal laws banning imports from Xinjiang.

In November 2025, Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the UK Conservative Party, who was sanctioned by China in 2021 after he highlighted the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, told The Epoch Times that the new Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court would

Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2022 stated: "Chinese authorities are committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang.

In China’s far-western region of Xinjiang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have “forcibly lived” in Uyghurs’ homes and monitored their families, according to the report.

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The documents revealed that Geedge has sold technology used to suppress citizens to the governments of Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Burma, Xinjiang, and at least one other unknown government.

The Canadian subsidiaries of all three companies are accused of relying on suppliers who source materials from Uyghur people forced to work in China’s Xinjiang region.

As part of international efforts to address Beijing’s forced labour targeting Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region, Canada amended its Customs Tariff Act on July 1, 2020, prohibiting the importation from all countries of goods produced, in whole or in part

"We are very aware, based on credible reporting from the NGO and other communities, that there's a significant number of companies that are operating in Xinjiang or around Xinjiang that are engaging in those abhorrent practices, and we want to name them

That sum includes direct investments into companies with ties to China’s military, surveillance apparatus, and ongoing human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

The meetings also touched upon the CCP's human rights violations in the far-western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as the erosion of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong.

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The CCP controls several territories where it employs additional abusive policies as a way to maintain its authority, including in Xinjiang and Tibet.