{"id":61711,"date":"2024-02-07T02:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/german-firm-basf-urged-to-quit-xinjiang-over-gross-abuses-of-uyghurs"},"modified":"2024-02-07T02:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:19:44","slug":"german-firm-basf-urged-to-quit-xinjiang-over-gross-abuses-of-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61711","title":{"rendered":"German firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over \u2018gross abuses\u2019 of Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Politicians say chemicals producer \u2018appears to be implicated\u2019 in abuses of minorities in Chinese province<\/p>\n<p>The German chemicals producer BASF \u201cappears to be implicated in gross abuses\u201d of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and should withdraw from the Chinese province, a group of politicians from around the world have said.<\/p>\n<p>The group made the allegation in a letter to BASF\u2019s chair, Martin Bruderm\u00fcller, on Monday, after the German media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wirtschaft\/unternehmen\/uiguren-wie-tief-sind-deutsche-konzerne-in-das-system-in-xinjiang-verstrickt-a-9689a3d1-04c0-456f-9e26-618bb4ab174c\">Der Spiegel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdf.de\/nachrichten-sendungen\/heute-journal\/basf-china-uiguren-100.html\">ZDF<\/a> published a joint investigation on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/german-firm-basf-urged-to-quit-xinjiang-over-gross-abuses-of-uyghurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Politicians say chemicals producer \u2018appears to be implicated\u2019 in abuses of minorities in Chinese provinceThe German chemicals producer BASF \u201cappears to be implicated in gross abuses\u201d of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and should withdraw from the Chines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,6,50,221,533,1175,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","category-manufacturing-sector","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61711","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61711\/revisions\/61712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}