Posted: Jun 29, 2021 10:27 PM ET | Last Updated: June 30
A masked demonstrator attends a protest denouncing China s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. Canadian senators on Tuesday voted down a motion to label China s treatment of the Uyghurs as a genocide.(Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
Senators declined to label China s treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening.
A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Twenty-nine senators voted in favour of the motion, 33 senators voted against and 13 abstained.
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