#Newspaper
Hair Product Industry Linked to Uyghur Forced Labor Booming in Xinjiang’s Lop County
//The U.S. recently sanctioned a hair products company based in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for its links to forced labor, but a closer investigation by RFA’s Uyghur Service shows that several firms in the area operate similar business models and are likely linked to internment camps
//China is the largest exporter of hair in the world, supplying more than 80 percent of hair-based products, including human-hair wigs and false eyelashes made from human eyelash hair.
//China exports around U.S. $6 billion worth of hair products each year.
//Haolin had been registered in an industrial park... for companies manufacturing products made from human hair. The park was built close to the Beijing Industrial District in Lop in 2018 and now is home to 24 different companies that employ 4,000 local Uyghurs.
//RFA was able to determine that many Haolin products are partially processed in Lop factories, after which they are sent to factories in Shandong province’s Qingdao city for further processing before being sent to the U.S. and other countries.
//“We have our own manufacturer, we just go [to the XUAR] to source materials,” she said, when asked about the company’s product referred to as “dark brown virgin Xinjiang human hair.”
//The source of the hair used in products being manufactured in the XUAR remains unclear
//Uyghur cultural traditions dictate that women leave their hair long and there is no history of people selling their hair in the region, raising suspicions about whether in addition to using forced labor to manufacture hair products, the raw hair may be coming from detainees in the XUAR’s camp network.
//at least 10 female former camp detainees have described having their heads shaved immediately upon entering the detention facilities
//a Pakistani trader who gave his name as Amir and claimed to have visited a Haolin factory in Lop county four months ago... he stopped trading in hair products once he learned from a friend who works in the camps that the raw material was hair “taken from detainees.”
//Amir cited his friend as saying that the heads of all detainees are shaved when they are sent to the camps.
//“I have a friend who works in a camp. He told me that the companies take away all of the hair.”
//RFA was unable to independently verify the Pakistani trader’s account.
Source: Rfa, (28-May)
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/hair-05282020155504.html
#HairProduct #Uyghur #Xinjiang #Haolin #XUAR #Lop
Hair Product Industry Linked to Uyghur Forced Labor Booming in Xinjiang’s Lop County
//The U.S. recently sanctioned a hair products company based in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for its links to forced labor, but a closer investigation by RFA’s Uyghur Service shows that several firms in the area operate similar business models and are likely linked to internment camps
//China is the largest exporter of hair in the world, supplying more than 80 percent of hair-based products, including human-hair wigs and false eyelashes made from human eyelash hair.
//China exports around U.S. $6 billion worth of hair products each year.
//Haolin had been registered in an industrial park... for companies manufacturing products made from human hair. The park was built close to the Beijing Industrial District in Lop in 2018 and now is home to 24 different companies that employ 4,000 local Uyghurs.
//RFA was able to determine that many Haolin products are partially processed in Lop factories, after which they are sent to factories in Shandong province’s Qingdao city for further processing before being sent to the U.S. and other countries.
//“We have our own manufacturer, we just go [to the XUAR] to source materials,” she said, when asked about the company’s product referred to as “dark brown virgin Xinjiang human hair.”
//The source of the hair used in products being manufactured in the XUAR remains unclear
//Uyghur cultural traditions dictate that women leave their hair long and there is no history of people selling their hair in the region, raising suspicions about whether in addition to using forced labor to manufacture hair products, the raw hair may be coming from detainees in the XUAR’s camp network.
//at least 10 female former camp detainees have described having their heads shaved immediately upon entering the detention facilities
//a Pakistani trader who gave his name as Amir and claimed to have visited a Haolin factory in Lop county four months ago... he stopped trading in hair products once he learned from a friend who works in the camps that the raw material was hair “taken from detainees.”
//Amir cited his friend as saying that the heads of all detainees are shaved when they are sent to the camps.
//“I have a friend who works in a camp. He told me that the companies take away all of the hair.”
//RFA was unable to independently verify the Pakistani trader’s account.
Source: Rfa, (28-May)
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/hair-05282020155504.html
#HairProduct #Uyghur #Xinjiang #Haolin #XUAR #Lop
Radio Free Asia
Hair Product Industry Linked to Uyghur Forced Labor Booming in Xinjiang’s Lop County
Profits are significant with free labor but may also benefit from the sourcing of raw materials.
Turkey Criticised China's Xinjiang Rule and Urged Respect for Uighur Turks Human Rights
On the Eve of the China National Day celebration, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) raised concerns over Beijing's Xinjiang policy, including arbitrary practice against Uighurs. The party urged respect of Uighur Turks and Muslim minorities rights. The Chinese Embassy in Turkey issued a statement to show "strong opposition".
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, the Justice and Development Party spokesman Omer Celik said that Turkey had been closely monitoring human rights and freedom of belief in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). He believed that the XUAR De-extremification Regulation, implemented in 2017, contained poor and arbitrary practices against Uyghurs, including arbitrary detentions, limitations of religious freedom and forced-teaching of Chinese. These incidents attracted international community attention, and the UN raised their concerns in reports on related issues.
Source: Apple Daily #Oct01
https://bit.ly/34VOuNK
#Xinjiang #Uighur #Turkey #HumanRights #ReligionFreedom #omerCrlik #XUAR #AKParty
(Note: The translation reference the following news for the exact wordings of Justice and Development Party spokesman Omer Celik:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-chinas-uighur-policy-on-ankara-s-agenda/1990053
https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-reiterates-concern-over-china-s-rights-violations-against-uighurs-40386
)
On the Eve of the China National Day celebration, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) raised concerns over Beijing's Xinjiang policy, including arbitrary practice against Uighurs. The party urged respect of Uighur Turks and Muslim minorities rights. The Chinese Embassy in Turkey issued a statement to show "strong opposition".
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, the Justice and Development Party spokesman Omer Celik said that Turkey had been closely monitoring human rights and freedom of belief in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). He believed that the XUAR De-extremification Regulation, implemented in 2017, contained poor and arbitrary practices against Uyghurs, including arbitrary detentions, limitations of religious freedom and forced-teaching of Chinese. These incidents attracted international community attention, and the UN raised their concerns in reports on related issues.
Source: Apple Daily #Oct01
https://bit.ly/34VOuNK
#Xinjiang #Uighur #Turkey #HumanRights #ReligionFreedom #omerCrlik #XUAR #AKParty
(Note: The translation reference the following news for the exact wordings of Justice and Development Party spokesman Omer Celik:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-chinas-uighur-policy-on-ankara-s-agenda/1990053
https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-reiterates-concern-over-china-s-rights-violations-against-uighurs-40386
)
Uyghur Man Draws 15-Year Prison Term for Contacting Uncles Overseas
A Uyghur man living in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sent to an internment camp four years ago for the crime of speaking to relatives overseas, contradicting Chinese claims that Uyghur residents of the region are free to keep in touch with family members abroad, RFA has learned.
Eli Juma, a resident of the No. 5 Village of Imamlirim township in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, was detained and sent to a camp in early 2017 for speaking to his uncles Jelil Juma and Helil Juma, both of them living outside China, three years before.
“Yes, he was in contact with his uncles, in contact with his relatives,” a village police officer in Uchturpan confirmed to RFA in a recent interview. “He spoke to them on the phone. I believe it was in 2014,” the officer added, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Source: RFA #Sep08
https://t.co/sWsJT46ToS
#Uyghur #Prison #China #XUAR
A Uyghur man living in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sent to an internment camp four years ago for the crime of speaking to relatives overseas, contradicting Chinese claims that Uyghur residents of the region are free to keep in touch with family members abroad, RFA has learned.
Eli Juma, a resident of the No. 5 Village of Imamlirim township in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, was detained and sent to a camp in early 2017 for speaking to his uncles Jelil Juma and Helil Juma, both of them living outside China, three years before.
“Yes, he was in contact with his uncles, in contact with his relatives,” a village police officer in Uchturpan confirmed to RFA in a recent interview. “He spoke to them on the phone. I believe it was in 2014,” the officer added, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Source: RFA #Sep08
https://t.co/sWsJT46ToS
#Uyghur #Prison #China #XUAR