UK ministers are told to stop “abdicating their legal and moral duties” and act after a tribunal found evidence “beyond reasonable doubt” of torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide in China’s Xinjiang region. In a renewed effort to pressure the government to recognise the genocide, UK Parliament unanimously passed a motion on Thursday calling for an urgent assessment and sanctions against the perpetrators. In April 2021, Parliament declared that Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang were subjected to crimes against humanity and genocide. But the government declined to make an official recognition, citing the long-standing position of successive British governments that only a competent court can make determinations on genocide. The new motion, introduced by Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani, comes after an independent people’s tribunal in London found “beyond reasonable doubt” that the People’s Republic of China had committed torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Xinjiang. The Uyghur …