{"id":7285,"date":"2021-01-12T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-dominic-raab"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:33:19","slug":"chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-says-dominic-raab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-says-dominic-raab\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in Xinjiang<\/p><p>China\u2019s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/jan\/10\/raab-to-clampdown-on-firms-linked-to-forced-labour-in-xinjiang\">measures<\/a> designed to ensure no companies allow the use of forced labour from Xinjiang province in their supply chain. Deterrent fines will be imposed on firms that do not show due diligence in cleaning up their supply chains, he said.<\/p><p>The aim, he told MPs, was to \u201censure no company that profits from forced labour in Xinjiang can do business in the UK, that no UK business is involved in their supply chains\u201d.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji\">How I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-dominic-raab\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-torture-dominic-raab\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina\u2019s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out measures designed to e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,1727,1318,6,1331,14,438,1323,1314,1310,2024,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}