China accused of forcing 570,000 people to pick cotton in Xinjiang
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation China is forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities to pick cotton by hand, a US thinktank said, sparking calls for governments to ban all cotton imports from the Xinjiang region. The vast western province, home to about 11 million ethnic Uighurs, produces 85 per cent of China’s […]