Inside Chinas secretive Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 5:10 a.m.

b"The Chinese government says the Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park in the country's northwest is a place where people make wigs and other hair products that get shipped across the globe. \\nOthers say what\\u2019s happening at the park is forced labour, and that it\\u2019s just the latest in a pattern of grave human rights abuses committed in recent years against the country\\u2019s Uighur Muslim population \\u2014 including the use of detention camps, mass surveillance and even forced sterilization. \\nThe Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park in Xinjiang province is an incredibly secretive, highly guarded place, yet Globe and Mail journalist Nathan VanderKlippe managed to travel there. Today on Front Burner, VanderKlippe discusses what he saw."