Pro-Uyghur Groups call on UN to confront Chinese oppressive measures
Pro-Muslim Uighur Groups called on the United Nations to take action against China for its violations of the rights of this group, after experts from the organization reviewed Beijing’s human rights record.
During a two-day review by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, participants asked the Chinese delegation about the country’s treatment of minorities, including Uyghurs in the country’s western Xinjiang region, and measures to end forced labor and arbitrary detention.
“Another group of independent UN experts has raised serious concerns about the ongoing brutality faced by Muslim Uighurs,” said Executive Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, in a joint statement with the World Uyghur Congress.
For his part, Kenneth Roth, Director of the Human Rights Office in the European Union, said: “With no prospect of tangible progress, the European Union must suspend dialogue and strengthen its efforts to secure United Nations action on China’s miserable record and pursue accountability for international crimes committed.” in Xinjiang.”
Members of the Uighur minority have been subjected to arbitrary practices and persecution that have lasted for years, by Communist China, because of their Islamic faith, and the government’s attempt to completely obliterate and erase it.
