China Denies Forced Labor Practices

Don Ma
By Don Ma
January 20, 2021China in Focus
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A Beijing spokesperson denied China’s forced labor practices. But NTD spoke with a human rights activist, who says his father experienced it first hand.

Beijing is calling accusations of forced labor in China the biggest lie of the past 100 years. That’s according to a tweet from China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chun Ying on Thursday. The comment comes in response to the United States’ decision to ban all cotton and tomato product imports from China’s Xinjiang region.

Forced labor is widely believed to be a commonplace and profitable practice in Chinese detention centers and prisons. For decades, China’s prison economy has been known to provide big business for the regime.

New Zealand based human rights activist Xing Jian, shared with NTD his father’s experience inside a prison in Henan Province. This prison has been described as the worst prison in the province, inmates are forced to work 13 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

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