Twenty-Five British MPs on Thursday pressured the UK government to take action on the Chinese Regime’s treatment of Uyghurs, a day after The BBC reported on systematic rape, sexual abuse, and torture against Uyghur women in China’s “re-education” camps. This has been the third Parliamentary urgent questions session on Xinjiang, which also came days ahead of a crucial vote that, if passed, will make the UK the first country to give its domestic courts power to judge genocide cases. On Jan. 19, the last day of the Trump administration, The United States government announced that the Chinese regime had committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, a move with which the then-incoming Biden administration said it agreed. Genocide Amendment The UK House of Commons on the same day rejected an amendment from the House of Lords, which would give UK courts power to make a preliminary judgment on genocide …
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