Following Parliament’s declaration of China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide, a Liberal MP is introducing a motion to call on the federal government to further provide support to members of this minority group who fled the country but continue to face intimidation from the regime.
In February 2021, parliamentarians voted unanimously (266–0) in support of a motion that labels the arbitrary incarceration and abuse of an estimated 1 to 3 million Uyghurs by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China’s western province Xinjiang as an act of genocide.
Pursuant to that motion, Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi has introduced another motion, M-62, calling on the federal government to recognize that Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who have fled to third countries continue to “face pressure and intimidation by the Chinese state to return to China,” where they face the serious risk of mass arbitrary detention, forced sterilization, forced labour, torture, and other atrocities….