{"id":3928,"date":"2023-02-28T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:00:07","slug":"vw-haelt-an-werk-in-uiguren-region-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/2023\/02\/28\/vw-haelt-an-werk-in-uiguren-region-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"VW holds on to factory in Uyghur region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3928\" class=\"elementor elementor-3928\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ff5fce e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6ff5fce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52296e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"52296e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Despite reports of human rights violations in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Volkswagen intends to hold on to its factory there. There are no indications of violations at the plant, the car company said.<\/strong><\/p><p>Car manufacturer Volkswagen intends to stick with the site even after a visit by its China board member Ralf Brandst\u00e4tter to the controversial plant in the Xinjiang region. \"We have no evidence of human rights violations at this plant - that has not changed after my visit,\" Brandst\u00e4tter said at an online press conference.<\/p><p>During his visit on Feb. 16 and 17, he said he got the impression that the management was trying to create a good working atmosphere. He spoke at length with seven employees, including members of the Uyghur Muslim minority.<\/p><h2 class=\"meldung__subhead columns twelve  m-ten  m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two\">\"We are aware of the critical reports\"<\/h2><p class=\"m-ten  m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve\">\"Of course we are aware of the critical reports, we take it very seriously,\" Brandst\u00e4tter said of the indications of systematic oppression of Uyghurs in the western province. In recent years, there have been repeated reports of forced labor and re-education camps in Xinjiang. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/wirtschaft\/unternehmen\/volkswagen-xinjiang-uiguren-101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trotz der Berichte \u00fcber Menschenrechtsverletzungen in der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang will Volkswagen an seiner dortigen Fabrik festhalten. Es gebe keine Hinweise auf Verst\u00f6\u00dfe in dem Werk, so der Autokonzern. Der Autohersteller Volkswagen will auch nach einem Besuch seines China-Vorstands Ralf Brandst\u00e4tter in dem umstrittenen Werk in der Region Xinjiang an dem Standort festhalten. &#8222;Wir haben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181093875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47664252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbKm7C-11m","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181093875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}