After the revelations, German BASF announced the closure of its sites in the Xinjiang region – Liberation

The chemical giant will leave China’s Xinjiang region after revelations about the involvement of one of its Chinese partners in Beijing’s crackdown on its Muslim population.

German chemical leader BASF announced in a press release on Friday that it wants to accelerate the sale of its two sites located near Korla, in the Xinjiang region (or East Turkestan) in western China, operated in cooperation with the Chinese company Xinjiang. Marker Chemical Industry. The announcement comes a week after the German magazine’s revelations Der Spiegel And the Berlin channel ZBF accuses Chinese businessman Markor of violating the rights of the Uyghur people and therefore complicity with the German company.

On February 5, 40 deputies, including 3 French, from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) published a letter requesting an emergency meeting with BASF leaders and demanding action accordingly. Four days later, this Friday, the company broke its silence and admitted that it was a revelation “Contains serious allegations of activities inconsistent with BASF’s values.”

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