Munich, Oct. 18 -- The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief highlighting China's forced labour, environmental damage, cultural assimilation and restrictions on human rights advocacy in East Turkistan.

An investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project, published in The Globe and Mail on October 9, examined China's expanding aquaculture industry in the Taklamakan Desert.

While Chinese authorities promote desert fish farming as a technological breakthrough, the report highlighted allegations of state-backed forced labour, coerced relocations and land seizures involving Uyghurs and other Turkic groups. It also raised environmental concerns over river and lake pollution and the extensive use of antibiotics and chemicals.

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