A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal government over its lack of action on Beijing’s human rights atrocities against the Uyghur minority population in China.
The petition also sought to gain formal recognition that China’s internment of its Uyghur population is an act of genocide, and that the Liberal’s inaction on the matter it had amounted to a violation of a United Nations convention against genocide.
Justice Alan Diner said he agrees with a motion brought by Attorney General David Lametti to strike the application made by the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) without leave to amend, according to the court ruling released on Jan. 26….