Islamic Nonprofit Condemns Intel for Removing Uyghur Prohibtion in Supplier Letter
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Intel was wrong to remove a phrase from its supplier letters that told them they should not source goods or labor from China's Xinjiang province. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act says that any…
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goods made with Uyghur labor outside Xinjiang, or made in Xinjiang, would be presumed to be made with forced labor, and therefore barred from entry into the U.S. CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said, "Once again, an American corporation has showed extreme cowardice by bowing to the sensitivities of the Chinese Communist Party, which is perpetrating a genocide against Uyghur Muslims. By removing language that explicitly prohibits the sourcing of goods from the Uyghur region of China, Intel is enabling the Chinese governments' efforts to profit from forced labor and bully the world into silence."