Auditors to Stop Inspecting Factories in China’s Xinjiang Despite Forced-Labor Concerns

HONG KONG—At least five corporations say they won’t enable companies audit their provide chains in China’s Xinjiang location, in which human-legal rights activists say a police-state environment and federal government controls make it also tricky to decide whether factories and farms are relying on compelled labor.

China’s increasingly repressive practices in the northwestern location, in which big quantities of Uighurs and other largely Muslim minorities have been rounded up in internment camps, have prompted strategies from human-legal rights teams. Western…