China’s little-known system of forced Uyghur labour gives the world much of its seafood

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This story was published in co-ordination with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization in Washington. Reporting and writing was contributed by Ian Urbina, Daniel Murphy, Joe Galvin, Maya Martin, Susan Ryan, Austin Brush and Jake Conley. On a cloudy morning this past April, more than 80 men and women, dressed in matching red windbreakers, stood in orderly lines in front of the train station in the city of Kashgar, in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. They were members of the country’s Uyghur ethnic minority, a largely Muslim group that makes up more than half the population in Xinjiang. They...