Xinjiang [China], July 16 (ANI): Nearly 90 Uyghur teenage women are locked up in a Chinese-run garment manufacturing facility in Xinjiang, the place they’re compelled to work closely 14 hours a day, seven days every week, and commonly face verbal and bodily abuse, an investigation by Radio Free Asia (RFA) has discovered.

According to 4 sources, quoted by RFA together with a village chief and the manufacturing facility’s safety chief, the Wanhe Garment Co Ltd in Maralbeshi county has a secret settlement with the close by Yarkant 2nd Vocational High School below which feminine college students aged 16 to 18 are despatched to work on the manufacturing facility in opposition to their will.

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Local authorities have pressed mother and father to not object to their kids working on the plant, in response to the village chief, a girl accountable for persuading the mother and father to let the women go.

Workers on the plant, which employs roughly a dozen girls of their 30s and 40s in addition to some males, aren’t allowed to depart.

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These women are compelled to sleep in dormitories on the manufacturing facility compound. Most are Uyghurs, however solely 15 are Chinese who got here from some place else to work on the manufacturing facility.

A village official mentioned that the women are stored in line by a middle-aged Uyghur girl named Tursungul Memtimin, whom the women name “teacher.” She commonly insults and criticises these women, and generally additionally hit them with a bat, as per RFA.

 “The ‘teacher’ is known to have a very bad temper. She physically assaults the workers using a bat as a means of inflicting harm,” she mentioned.

 “The workers live in fear of her, and due to this intimidating environment, no one dares to make an escape,” the official advised RFA.

The revelation comes amid rising proof of Uyghur compelled labour in Xinjiang, in addition to suspicions that compelled labour is exploited in massive companies’ provide strains.

Inditex, the mother or father firm of Zara and Uniqlo, in addition to carmakers Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, have all come below rising scrutiny to confirm that they don’t seem to be utilising Uyghur compelled labour.

The Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act, handed into regulation in December 2021, requires American enterprises who import items from Xinjiang to exhibit that they weren’t produced utilizing Uyghur compelled labour at any stage of manufacturing. (ANI)

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