Washington - January 5 ANI A major Muslim civil liberties organization in the United States has called for Tesla motors CEO Elon Musk to close a recently opened showroom in China's Xinjiang region, saying that no American corporation should be doing business in a region that is the focal point of a campaign of genocide targeting a religious and ethnic minority.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR said that Tesla must stop what amounts to economic support for genocide.
The Chinese social media platform Weibo is an announcement from the US-based Tesla showroom in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi.
The CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said that no American corporation should be doing business in a region that is the focal point of a campaign of genocide targeting a religious and ethnic minority. Elon Musk and Tesla must stop what amounts to economic support for genocide. According to media reports, Tesla has begun operations in a showroom in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. This has drawn widespread criticism.
US lawmakers accuse China of imprisoning as many as 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and members of other Muslim minority groups in a system of extrajudicial mass internment camps, where they are forced to produce textiles, electronics, food products, shoes, tea, and handicrafts.
Beijing has denied all of the accusations of being involved in abuses in Xinjiang.