Uyghurs: Forced Labor and Ongoing Genocide

Uyghurs are a Muslim ethnic minority group living primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government has detained as many as two million Uyghurs in mass internment camps and subjected them to political indoctrination, torture, forced labor, and other human rights abuses. The export of products made by forced labor has enabled the CCP to build a technologically enabled surveillance state and allowed the party to profit from its atrocities. The U.S. government has responded by implementing targeted restrictions on trade with Xinjiang and imposing visa and economic sanctions.