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An Australian think tank says it has evidence that at least 80,000 Chinese Uighurs have been sent to work in factories that make global brands. It said the Uighurs had little option to refuse these work placements. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute believes this is the next phase in China's re-education of Muslim Uighurs; a million are already thought to have been placed in detention in Xinjiang. Officials have denied any commercial use of forced labour from Xinjiang, according to the Australian organisation. Chinese state media says participation in labour transfer schemes is voluntary. One of the authors of the Australian report, Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, spoke to 91Èȱ¬ Newsday.

(Photo: A Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center, believed to be a re-education camp in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Credit: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)