A new report recently released as a result of an extensive and long-lasting investigation reveals that the Chinese regime is taking advantage of Uyghur forced labor on a large scale in the fishing industry.
A four-year investigation by the non-profit media organization “Illegal Ocean Project” reveals that Uyghur Turks are widely forced to work as slave laborers in the fishing industry controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime.
HIGH SEAS FISHING FLEET
The findings of the extensive and long-lasting investigation show that forced labor of Uyghurs is widespread in seafood enterprises and huge seafood processing plants in Chinese provinces, while Deciphering the Uyghurs forcibly detained in China's offshore fishing fleet shows that Chinese authorities keep the crew at sea under terrible conditions for months or even years and force them to work, ignoring the deadly risks faced by workers in this process.
The report also reveals that China is actively using Uyghur forced labor in the fishing sector, and seafood processed in these units is exported to many countries.
Successive reports made public in recent years indicate that the crime of forced labor in China is concentrated in three main industries. The prominent sectors are Cotton products (East Turkistan cotton meets 20% of the world's demand and 80% of China's), Tomato products (mainly Ketchup), the polycrystalline silicon industry used in Solar energy and Battery technology, as well as the existence of forced labor in the automobile and aluminum, sports and ready-to-wear sectors.
The Chinese regime, which has been committing systematic genocide and crimes against humanity for years but became sober in 2017, is imprisoning millions of East Turkistanis in penal camps and prisons. The prisoners are forcibly sterilized by giving them various chemicals, while the Girls are forced into marriage with Chinese men. Without distinction between men and women, it deports young people to Chinese provinces and other regions, calling them “employment” and forced labor. At the same time, the regime, which aims to reduce the population of the Uyghurs on the one hand, provides Chinese settlers with free housing and prestigious living conditions in the vacated places, giving them an advantage to take root in the region.