‘Slave labor’: NBA player Enes Kanter accuses Nike of using Uyghur forced labor

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Enes Kanter, a Boston Celtics player outspoken against the Chinese Communist Party, denounced Nike’s alleged use of forced Uyghur labor.

Kanter, who last week called on the “brutal dictator of China Xi Jinping” to end the Chinese suppression of Tibetan culture, turned his ire on sports apparel company Nike’s refusal to acknowledge human rights abuses at the hands of the Chinese government, despite being vocal about social justice issues in the United States such as Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate.

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