13 Republican Senators Urge CBP to Continue Investigating Forced Labor in Xinjiang
A baker's dozen Republican senators, led by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, praised recent withhold release orders on Xinjiang goods (see 2009140017), and urged CBP to continue investigating the region, in a letter dated Sept. 17. They said reports of…
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re-education camps there are particularly alarming. “There is significant, publicly available evidence suggesting that religious and ethnic minority citizens in Xinjiang are being forcibly detained, indoctrinated, and conscripted into labor against their will. Most recently, according to media reports, Uyghurs have been forcibly transported to work in factories in COVID-19 infected areas to keep supply chains running,” they wrote. Also signing were Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri; Mike Braun of Indiana; Rick Scott of Florida; John Barrasso of Wyoming; Mike Rounds of South Dakota; John Thune of South Dakota; Thom Tillis of North Carolina; Martha McSally of Arizona; Roger Wicker of Mississippi; Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma; John Hoeven of North Dakota; and John Cornyn of Texas.