The Massachusetts biotechnology giant Thermo Fisher Scientific has decided to stop selling genetic sequencing equipment in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where the authorities have for years been persecuting the local Muslim population.
Xinjiang is the main home of China’s Uighur minority—a Turkic group that is primarily Muslim. As many as a million Uighurs have been interned in “re-education” camps that the authorities say are necessary to combat separatism and religious extremism. Heavy surveillance is commonplace in the oil-rich region, with cameras everywhere and people forced to install spyware on their smartphones.
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