Uyghur NGO loses forced labour claims case against UK

London (AFP) Jan 20, 2023

A rights group representing China's Muslim Uyghur minority on Friday lost its case against the UK government, which it claimed had failed to investigate cotton imports allegedly linked to forced labour camps. The German-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) alleged that the UK government and police had blocked a criminal probe into the sale of goods sourced from Xinjiang, in northwest China.