House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently met with Uyghur advocates to discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. Pelosi attended a virtual meeting on March 1 with “Campaign for Uyghur” (CFU), a Washington-based advocacy group, to be briefed on recent measures aimed at stopping the CCP’s repression, according to the group’s press release. “If we don’t speak out clearly for human rights in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights any place in the world,” she wrote in a tweet after the meeting. Dr. Rishat Abbas, a senior advisor to CFU told Pelosi in the meeting that “Uyghurs are facing unprecedented atrocities, so horrific that the United States and the Canadian Parliament declared China’s actions against the Uyghurs as genocide,” according to the press release. The CCP has detained more than 1 million Uyghur and …
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