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Senators decline to label China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide


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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Raif Badawi: Nine years in a Saudi prison | Middle East| News and analysis of events in the Arab world | DW


Raif Badawi: 9 years in a Saudi prison
Despite international pressure and efforts to secure his release, this week marks the ninth anniversary of the Saudi dissident s arrest.
Raif Badawi s wife has been integral to efforts to try to free him
Things are not going well for Raif Badawi. The Saudi Arabian writer has been in prison in the Gulf state since June 2012, when he was arrested for what he wrote on a website that he founded called Free Saudi Liberals.
Badawi was charged with insulting Islam by promoting secularism on his blog. In 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a $266,000 fine and 1,000 lashes. Despite a number of international campaigns to try and secure an earlier release, he may well remain in jail in Saudi Arabia until late February 2022. This would be the date of his release according to the Islamic calendar that was used to sentence him. ....

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