I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry.

Shandong Xinfa Holdings Co. Ltd. has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the government’s labor transfer program.

The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor across the country via state-sanctioned employment programs which use coercive…

My name is Ian Urbina. I am with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States, and I'm working on a magazine story about labor issues and other crimes at sea on Chinese vessels. We are reaching out to request a comment from Rongcheng Xinfa Aquatic Food Co., Ltd., in response to the statement below concerning the Lu Rong Yu 2682, which we mention in the story.

Court documents from the Intermediate People's Court of Weihai City, and reporting by Esquire China, indicate the following about a mutiny on the Lu Rong Yu 2682 in 2011: The captain…