Apple has "zero tolerance for forced labor" and ensured no Uighur workers have been transferred to its suppliers' factories, the company tells the Washington Post.

Longtime Apple iPhone supplier Lens Technology, a maker of glass screens and coverings, has been accused of using forced Uighur labor in its factories, according to a report by the Washington Post, citing documents from the human rights group Tech Transparency Project. The report noted that Lens Technology is a supplier to Tesla and Amazon, too.

Many companies' supply chains wind through Chinese factories, a reliance frequently complicated by the country's opaque, authoritarian government. China's Xinjiang region is home to the Uighur ethnic minority, a Muslim population being persecuted by the Chinese government. Human rights advocates have decried abusive practices that compel Uighur workers into concentration camps fronting as factories in the region -- or that force Uighurs to transfer to factories in other Chinese provinces.

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