A peer and human rights campaigner has urged the government to ensure that renewable energy supply chains are free from modern slavery, warning that Chinese solar products are "badly tainted" by Uyghur slave labour.
The report, titled "Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression and Mass Imprisonment," was co-authored by lead researcher Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage.
Earlier this year, the House passed the Uyghur Policy Act to support Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in preserving their identities against the Chinese regime’s attempts to erase them from history.
Ed Miliband has green lighted a solar farm project in England despite alleged risks of Uyghur forced labour.
The Mallard Pass Solar Project was one of the three projects that were approved on Friday by Mr.
An estimated 1 million to 3 million Uyghurs have since been arbitrarily held in in various "political indoctrination camps" in China, according to the World Uyghur Congress.
Forced marriages are another means to de-Uyghurize Xinjiang.
As many as 3 million Uyghurs, or 25 percent of the Uyghur population, are condemned to time in so-called reeducation camps.
'Cried With Joy'
Rahima Mahmut, WUC's UK director and executive director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, said she "cried with joy," and hailed what she said was "a monumental victory and a moral triumph."
The Uyghur Policy Act aims to create concrete pathways for the United States to support Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities subject to mass human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Abbas: I was a reporter at Radio Free Asia in 1998 when it added a Uyghur service. I was the first Uyghur reporter and lived in Washington at that time.
In December 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent people's tribunal, ruled that the Chinese communist regime had committed torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Holding Uyghurs of the Diaspora Hostage
The CCP can pressure Uyghurs who live abroad by threatening their family members back home, as all of the Uyghurs abroad have family still in Xinjiang, according to Ms. Abbas.
September 26, 2023By Efthymis Oraiopoulos, Jan Jekielek
Uyghurs in the United States will protest China’s ongoing Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang and the deaths of the Uyghurs in the Urumqi fire.
The Epoch Times will livestream the protest in Washington at 11:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 28.
The United States government officially recognized China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang) for two years on Jan. 19.
“And he was the man at McKinsey who cozied up to the Communist government in Beijing, even working with state-owned companies that violated international law and he refused to condemn the Uyghur genocide.”
Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, said the designation of P-2 refugee status is a “long-overdue acknowledgment” of the horrific conditions faced by the Uyghurs.
official on Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the president’s lifting of sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party-run Institute of Forensic Science, which has been confirmed by the United Nations to have committed atrocities on Uyghurs