Thousands of Porsche, Bentley and Audi cars have been impounded in US ports after a supplier to parent group Volkswagen found a 🇨🇳 subcomponent in the vehicles that breached anti-forced labour laws.

The carmaker has delayed delivery of the vehicles until as late as the end of… pic.twitter.com/9Y0X01h7M3

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) February 14, 2024

Year 2024: “These findings are worse than those I had uncovered for BASF's Markor Chemical joint venture partner, because they implicate a Volkswagen-controlled entity not only in activities aiding state atrocities, but also in subjecting its own staff to forced labor,… https://t.co/cdxnaoOonS

— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) February 14, 2024

New allegations against #VW in #Xinjiang

"The Handelsblatt has new evidence that forced labor was used to build a test track for the company in #China. VW employees had previously given a tip."https://t.co/efY8pzM1tC

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) February 14, 2024

Front page news in Germany: Volkswagen-SAIC test track in Turpan, Xinjiang, built with #Uyghur forced labour.

The complacency of these companies has been eye-watering. So much for @VW‘s “clean” audit last December. pic.twitter.com/2JVwWt1T9b

— Luke de Pulford (@lukedepulford) February 14, 2024

"Fundamentally the human rights situation in Xinjiang is so catastrophic and obscure that German companies should not be active there […] that also goes for VW," says @FrankSchwabe.@Volkswagen should leave the Uyghur region.https://t.co/g7V62yenqL

— Uyghur Human Rights Project (@UyghurProject) February 13, 2024