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Gravitas | China's Dark Reality : Top carmakers linked to Uighur forced labor in Xinjiang

An alarming new report reveals how leading carmakers are at high risk of using aluminium produced by forced labour in China's Xinjiang province. According to a Human Rights Watch report, as much as one-fifth of China’s aluminium is produced by smelters in Xinjiang. Here, over a million ethnic minority Muslims have been subjected to internment as well as other abuses.