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Discrimination Against Tibetans and Uyghurs

August 23, 2019;

Lens Technology, a giant tech company in China’s Hunan province, has posted a job advertisement barring Tibetans and Uyghurs from applying. Despite Chinese law stating that everyone has equal employment rights based on merit, the company, with over 60,000 employees, said that it can only “accept other ethnic minorities” for the job posting if they are not Tibetan, Uyghur Mongolian or Sichuanese, reports Tibet Watch.

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