US Senate votes to ban products from China’s Xinjiang over Uyghur abuses

Latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups

The US Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what US officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would create a rebuttable presumption" assuming goods manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced labor and therefore banned under the 1930 Tariff Act, unless otherwise certified by US authorities.