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Articoli Correlati: uyghurs repression - re-education camps - human rights

On the 19^th of December 2019, the MEPs expressed their concern on the repression of the Uyghurs and consequently addressed the Chinese Government to request the immediate closing of ‘re-education camps’ in Xinjiang. The MEPs are particularly worried about the practice of arbitrary detentions without any charge, trial or conviction for criminal offence which constitutes a clear violation of human rights, so much so that they urged Chinese government to immediately release all detained persons, including this year’s laureate of the Sakharov Prize, Ilham Tohti. In regard of this matter, there is solid information that Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang province are subject to arbitrary governmental measures. They call on the Chinese authorities to give independent journalists and international observers free access to Xinjiang province to examine the situation on the ground. MEPs also worries about Uyghurs abroad being harassed by the Chinese authorities in order to make them inform the Authorities against other Uyghurs, sometimes by detaining their family members.