American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls Tesla's new location in the city at the heart of the crackdown on Uyghur Muslims "economic support for genocide."
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Tesla has opened a new showroom in Xinjiang, a region in western China that is purported to be the site of abuse and brutal repression of the country’s Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority.
Xinjiang is, home to a Muslim population known as the Uyghurs whom the United Nations and rights organizations have identified as a repressed ethnic group.
BEIJING (AP) — Activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic
Tesla on Friday announced the opening of its showroom in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Activists want Elon Musk to scrap a new Tesla showroom in China's Xinjiang region due to the government's alleged human rights abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Tesla opened a new showroom in China's Xinjiang region, where authorities have been conducting genocide against the country's Uyghur Muslim population.
Human rights groups, activists and lawmakers are criticizing Tesla, the American electric car company headed by billionaire Elon Musk, for opening a showroom in China’s Xinjiang province.
Activists and foreign governments say around 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been confined to detention camps in Xinjiang and that doing business in the region 'amounts to economic support for genocide.'
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