Politicians call on Volkswagen to withdraw from Xinjiang. VW operates a plant in Xinjiang in a joint venture with the Chinese manufacturer Saic.
In the summer, the car company commissioned a company to examine the working conditions at the controversial plant for human rights violations. The auditors announced in December that they had found no evidence or evidence of forced labor among employees. Uighurs, members of other minorities and human rights organizations have been reporting for years that hundreds of thousands of people have been put into re-education camps against their will.