Xinjiang authorities detained Uyghurs and other minorities and forced them into labor under a 'vocational training' program, US finds.

The State Department's 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report found 'a government policy or pattern of widespread forced labor in government-affiliated sectors, including through the continued mass arbitrary detention and imprisonment of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region... under the guise of "vocational training" and "deradicalization."' It further found the government 'continued to place ethnic Tibetans, Uyghurs, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in vocational training and manufacturing jobs as part of an ostensible "poverty alleviation" and "labor dispatch program" that featured overt coercive elements,' and that Chinese nationals were separately subjected to forced labor abroad on Belt and Road Initiative projects with 'insufficient oversight' by Chinese authorities.