Move comes after legal rights group threatened court action to secure a ban on imports of cotton from the Xinjiang region of China that is produced by the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities

As the Chinese government denies the systematic oppression, torture, rape, sterilisation and mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities, goods made through detainees’ enforced labour flood western high streets – the fruits of China’s so-called ‘education’ camps

Global Legal Action Network seeks European Court of Justice ruling for EU-wide ban on products of forced labour in China