{"id":20840,"date":"2020-07-22T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/face-masks-made-with-allegedly-forced-uighur-labour-in-china-are-being-sold-in-australia"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:12:18","slug":"face-masks-made-with-allegedly-forced-uighur-labour-in-china-are-being-sold-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20840","title":{"rendered":"Face masks made with allegedly forced Uighur labour in China are being sold in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two Australian companies have imported stocks of masks from manufacturer involved in labour program criticised as \u2018highly coercive\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Face masks manufactured at a Chinese factory using allegedly coerced Uighur labour are being sold in Australia, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Australian demand for face masks is expected to skyrocket in coming weeks, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhhs.vic.gov.au\/updates\/coronavirus-covid-19\/face-coverings-1159pm-wednesday-22-july?fbclid=IwAR3JazMKaAsAXgFg7AUKGtbjPDs964Bcf0XhISksMPnfafKmXhGxu6X8blg\">Victorian authorities mandated<\/a> their use in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire, and recommended them for regional areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/face-masks-made-with-allegedly-forced-uighur-labour-in-china-are-being-sold-in-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two Australian companies have imported stocks of masks from manufacturer involved in labour program criticised as \u2018highly coercive\u2019Face masks manufactured at a Chinese factory using allegedly coerced Uighur labour are being sold in Australia, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,1069,346,53,914,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-human-rights","category-infectious-diseases","category-uighurs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20841,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}