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HISTORICAL FACTS: Uyghur group challenges britain over slave labour cotton - Caught on Camera

This file photograph taken on June 29, 2015, shows China's flag, left, beside the European Union (EU) flag during an EU-China Summit at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo: AFP)

LONDON: A Uyghur rights group told a London court on Tuesday that the British government has unlawfully failed to investigate the importation of cotton produced with "slave labour" in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups, is taking legal action at London's High Court against the state's Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and National Crime Agency (NCA).

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