{"id":853269,"date":"2022-10-25T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/failure-investigate-uk-imports-linked-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-high-court"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:57:06","slug":"failure-to-investigate-uk-imports-linked-to-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/25\/failure-to-investigate-uk-imports-linked-to-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to investigate UK imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Uyghur Forum brings high court challenge against government agencies over Xinjiang cotton imports<\/p><p>UK government agencies have broken the law by not investigating the importation of cotton products manufactured by forced Uyghur labourers in China, the high court has heard.<\/p><p>The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is challenging the home secretary, HM Revenue and Customs and the National Crime Agency (NCA), claiming a failure or refusal to investigate imports from Xinjiang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds#:~:text=China%20has%20built%20nearly,an%20Australian%20thinktank%20has%20found.\">allegedly home to 380 internment camps<\/a>, was unlawful.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/failure-investigate-uk-imports-linked-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-high-court\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/failure-investigate-uk-imports-linked-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-high-court\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Uyghur Forum brings high court challenge against government agencies over Xinjiang cotton importsUK government agencies have broken the law by not investigating the importation of cotton products manufactured by forced Uyghur labourers in China, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,190,15494,6,22662,640,14,2763,1314,1641,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853269"}],"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\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853271,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853269\/revisions\/853271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}