MPs urge government to ban imports from Xinjiang over treatment of Uyghurs

The British government has been urged by MPs to ban imports from Xinjiang, partially boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, and discourage companies from sponsoring the Games in response to China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims. The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee also recommended that Chinese surveillance company Hikvision should be banned from this country. The company has been accused of providing equipment to prison camps where thousands of Uyghur Muslims are being held in arbitrary detention and subjected to severe human rights abuses.