The French National Assembly voted 169 in favor and just one against for calling China’s treatment of Uyghurs genocide. The National Assembly officially recognizes the violence perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against the Uyghurs as crimes against humanity and genocide. The resolution will likely strain ties between Paris and Beijing.
Uyghur Genocide
Join us for a conversation about the Uyghur genocide with Tahir Imin, founder of the Uyghur Times. Seven decades after the world and the Jewish community declared “Never Again,” an industrial-scale genocide is underway against the Uyghur people.
An ethnic Uyghur who escaped to Morocco is facing the possibility of being sent back to China while his wife fights for his freedom.
The European Uyghur Institute co-hosted and organized the second hearing with the French Socialist Party ( Parti Socialiste) to determine whether Uyghur Genocide is happening, Uyghur Times | Uyghur Edition reported. The meeting took place in the French Parliament building in Paris on January 17.
Prepared by Tayir Imin
Published by Uyghur National Institute, Jan 16, 2022
1-Uyghur Tribunal Judgment
Publication Date: 9th December 2021.
As delivered at Church House Westminster on Thursday 9th December 2021.
By: Uyghur Tribunal
Uyghurs living in Turkey have filed a lawsuit against Chinese concentration camps, where they have their relatives in arbitrary detention, Türkıye News 24 reports. They have filed a misdemeanor complaint demanding the arrest of the Chinese officials responsible for the concentration camps.
Michael Polak, a British lawyer representing the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, is preparing ‘a universal jurisdiction criminal complaint’ to submit to the criminal courts of Argentina in February, Polak said in a tweet.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is placing 15 individuals and 10 entities under Magnitsky sanctions for their connection to human rights abuses in several countries around the world, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announces. Those sanctioned include the former Xinjiang governor Shohrat Zakir and the current governor Erkin Tuniyaz.
London – A UK-based independent tribunal has ruled, that China has committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the western ‘Xinjiang’ region. China’s senior leadership and President Xi Jinping carry primary responsibility for these acts perpetrated against these minorities.
Previously unpublished documents that link the crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the top Chinese leadership have been uploaded online, The Guardian reports.