Topless protester disrupts Volkswagen meeting over Xinjiang factory
Volkswagen’s annual shareholder meeting was briefly disrupted Wednesday by protests over the company’s factory in China’s Xinjiang province, with a shouting, topless activist interrupting t🍬he speech by CEO Oliver Blume before she was hustled away by security personnel.
Additionally a cake-like object was thrown during a speech by board chairman Hans-Die🗹ter Poetsch, apparently in the direction of board member Wolfgang Porsche, who represents his family’s shareholding in the company, the dpa agency reported.
Pho♈tos showed a white, gooey substance resembling pastry stuck to the front of th✨e podium behind which Porsche was sitting.
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Volkswaౠgen has said that it has found no evidence of human rights violations at its plant in China’s western Xinjiang region.
The Chinese government has been accused of human rights abuses against the Muslim Uyghur populati𓄧on in the region, including forced labor in detention campsꦏ.
The US State Department has described China’s actions in the region as genocide.
Police also stopped an attempt by climate protesters to glueℱ themselves to the ground on the square outside the meeting.
The sharܫeholder meeting in Berlin resumed after a brief intermission.
