Greens back motion to vote over Uighur genocide declaration in Xinjiang, China
4 May, 2021 02:36 AM
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Human rights organisations say around one million Uighurs are being held at detention camps in the Xinjiang province - which China denies. Video / Sky News / Getty
Human rights organisations say around one million Uighurs are being held at detention camps in the Xinjiang province - which China denies. Video / Sky News / Getty
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The Green party supports a Parliamentary motion to vote on if the abuse of the Uighur minority in China amounts to genocide.
Act to file motion calling for declaration of genocide in Xinjiang, China
27 Apr, 2021 06:37 PM
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ACT Party foreign affairs spokeswoman Brooke van Velden. Supplied / George Novak
The Act Party today plans to ask Parliament to debate a motion to declare China s oppression of the Uighur ethnic minority an act of genocide .
Its motion would ask MPs to vote on whether human rights abuses in the Chinese region of Xinjiang amount to genocide, a move that could compel the Government to take stronger action in condemning the nation, Stuff reports.
Similar motions have passed in the UK and Canada.
Paul Mozur and Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
Published: 13 Apr 2021 04:17 PM BdST
Updated: 13 Apr 2021 04:17 PM BdST Ethnic Uighurs, who are largely Muslim, walk past a mosque in Kashgar, in western China, Aug 7, 2019. The New York Times
Before Chinese police hung high-powered surveillance cameras and locked up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China’s western region of Xinjiang, China’s hackers went to work building malware, researchers say. );
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The Chinese hacking campaign, which researchers at Lookout the San Francisco mobile security firm said Wednesday had begun in earnest as far back as 2013 and continues to this day, was part of a broad but often invisible effort to pull in data from the devices that know people best: their smartphones.
The State Council Information Office of the People s Republic of China
The state-produced The Wings of Songs released in China on March 28.
It shows Uyghur Muslims living peacefully alongside Han Chinese people.
In reality, Uyghurs are heavily monitored and detained in their homeland of Xinjiang.
China released a propaganda musical that purportedly depicts the life of Uyghur Muslims, which fails to mention mass surveillance and systematic human-rights abuses. The Wings of Songs, which premiered in China on March 28, follows the story of a Uyghur, a Kazakh, and a Han Chinese man who form a musical group in the Xinjiang region.
John Sudworth had examined the origins of COVID-19 and China s treatment of Uyghurs.
The BBC said Sudworth s work exposed truths that China did not want the world to know.
China took a victory lap after the BBC moved its correspondent out of the country, claiming he was smearing it.
The BBC on Wednesday said it had relocated China correspondent John Sudworth to Taiwan, saying that his work has exposed truths that Chinese authorities did not want the world to know.
While in China, Sudworth reported topics including on the origins of the novel coronavirus and Beijing s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority which the country has long tried to clamp down on.