Australian Uighurs support senator's bid to ban imports from Xinjiang

As evidence of mass forced labour of Muslim Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region mounts, Australian senator Rex Patrick has introduced a bill to parliament calling for a ban on the importation of any goods made in the region. It's a move welcomed by Australian Uighurs, who hope the bill will become law.

Source: SBS

Since 2017,  more than a million Uighurs are thought to have been locked up in camps in Xinjiang - camps which China's government says are "voluntary" and used to counter extremism.  Evidence has also grown of Uighurs being transferred to forced labour factories;   a Washington-based research centre found more than 570,000 people in the region were sent to pick cotton under what they call a coercive labour program.  Independent senator Rex Patrick recently introduced a new bill to the federal parliament he hopes will take some action on the issue.