Tallinn, Aug. 1 -- On May 21, a cargo flight carrying over 50 tonnes of e-commerce goods from Urumchi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, touched down in Tallinn, Estonia, after a brief stopover in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. According to a new analysis by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), this route marks the first of its kind, offering European Union importers a new, streamlined air freight corridor into a region where the Chinese government is accused of perpetrating atrocity crimes, including state-imposed forced labour.

The Tallinn route is just one of over 20 newly established cargo corridors from Urumchi to cities across Europe, the UK, and Switzerland, identified by UHRP in its analysis of cargo flight data between...