Forced Labor Allegations For 7 Factories In Apple Supply Chain
Human rights groups have found evidence suggesting that seven Apple suppliers in China are using forced labor through state-run “poverty alleviation programs” targeting the Uyghur population. It says that the suppliers operate in prison-like compounds, with detention centers attached to factories, complete with guards in watchtowers … The Information reports: Advanced-Connectek has made unglamorous but critical computer components for Apple for more than a decade. For two of those years, it operated a factory inside an industrial park on the edge of the deserts of Xinjiang, a region of western China populated by a predominantly Muslim group known as Uyghurs....