France has opened an inquiry into allegations four fashion groups profited from the forced labour of the Uyghur minority in China. Magistrates at the national anti-terror prosecutor's office in Paris are probing claims the multinational companies are complicit in crimes against humanity, the source said, confirming a report on the Mediapart investigative website.

France launches probe into fashion groups over forced Uyghur labour

In a flat, arid expanse of China’s far west Xinjiang region, a solar technology company welcomed laborers from a rural area 650 miles away, preparing to put them to work at GCL-Poly, the world’s second-largest maker of polysilicon.

Chinese solar companies tied to use of forced labor

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France launches probe into fashion groups over forced Uyghur labour

Chinese solar companies tied to use of forced labor