Auditors Say They No Longer Will Inspect Labor Conditions at Xinjiang Factories

HONG KONG—At least five corporations say they won’t help businesses audit their source chains in China’s Xinjiang location, the place human-rights activists say a police-point out environment and government controls make it too tricky to decide whether or not factories and farms are relying on pressured labor.

China’s ever more repressive techniques in the northwestern location, the place significant quantities of Uighurs and other typically Muslim minorities have been rounded up in internment camps, have prompted campaigns from human-rights groups. Western…