Forced labour
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Thousands of Volkswagen Group luxury cars have been seized by US customs due to alleged violations of forced labor laws, the Financial Times reported this week. Several thousand Audis and around 1,000 Porsches, as well as several hundred Bentleys, are being impounded in US ports after the authorities found a component in the vehicles that…
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Two international rights groups are threatening legal action if Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners and the Irish customs authorities do not ban cotton imports from China which are manufactured using forced labour. The groups seeking the ban are Global Legal Action Network and the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress. If Chinese textile goods are not banned from being…
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Enes Kanter passed Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James without exchanging a word during pregame warmups on Friday night, but the Boston Celtics center’s sneakers said more than enough. One of Kanter’s sneakers featured James’ likeness being crowned by Chinese president Xi Jinping. The other read, “I am informed and educated on the situation,” a…
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Now she’s sorry. Nxivm sex-cult “slave master” Allison Mack apologized “to those who have been harmed by my actions,” in a letter filed in Brooklyn Federal Court ahead of her June 30 sentencing. Calling her devotion to deranged Nxivm leader Keith Raniere “the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life,” Mack groveled, “I am sorry to those of you that…
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Cracking down on forced labor allegations in China, the Biden administration on Wednesday banned the imports of a key solar panel chemicals from China-based Hoshine Silicon Industry. Separately, the U.S. Commerce Department restricted exports to Hoshine, three other Chinese companies and the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, charging them with using forced labor supplied…
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Image shows Chinese activists walking toward the Osaka District Court on Tuesday before the ruling on compensation for forced labor during World War II The Osaka District Court dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit filed by a group of Chinese citizens seeking compensation totaling ¥82.5 million from the Japanese central government over forced labor during World War II.…
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