(ANSA) - NEW YORK, JAN 04 - The opening of a showroom in China in Xinjiang, the area in which Beijing is accused of violations of the human rights of the Uighurs, is stormy over Elon Musk and Tesla. American activists and the Council on American-IslamicRelations are asking the billionaire-visionary to close the showroom: not doing so - is their thesis - means "economically supporting the genocide".
"No American company should do business in an area" where a "campaign of religious genocide and ethnic minority is underway," says Council on American-Islamic Relations director of communications, Ibrahim Hooper.
In recent weeks, US President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan provision that bans the import of products from Xinjiang unless companies are able to demonstrate that the materials used are not the result of forced labor.
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