Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) wrote to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) raising more awareness for the ongoing human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in China and asking several questions regarding products in the United States that may be the result of such abuses.
“We write to you regarding products entering the U.S. from China that may be the result of the human rights abuses being perpetrated against Uighur Muslims, particularly products made with Uighur women’s hair. [The] Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) must act to assure the American people that it is taking appropriate steps to address it," the members wrote.
“The Chinese government is reportedly shaving Uighur women to use their hair for products that are shipped to the U.S. In July, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a 13-ton shipment of beauty products suspected to have been made out of human hair likely from the Uighur Muslims internment camps in Xinjiang, China. Speaking on China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien recently stated that ‘[i]f not a genocide, something close to it going on in Xinjiang’ and that ‘[t]he Chinese are literally shaving the heads of Uighur women and making hair products and sending them to the United States,’" the members continued.
Read the full letter HERE.
