UK to call for UN probe of Uighur camps in China’s Xinjiang province
Violations happening on ‘industrial scale’, foreign secretary will tell human rights council

The UK foreign secretary wants UN investigators to be given urgent access to Uighur camps in Xinjiang as he warned that human rights abuses in the Chinese province are taking place on an “industrial scale”.
 
Dominic Raab will use an address to the UN human rights council on Monday to urge fellow members to address rights violations in China, Myanmar, Belarus and Russia, with particular emphasis on initiating an independent investigation by the UN high commissioner for human rights into forced labour camps run by Beijing.
 
“The situation in Xinjiang is beyond the pale,” the foreign secretary will say. “The reported abuses — which include torture, forced labour and forced sterilisation of women — are extreme and they are extensive. They are taking place on an industrial scale.”

State Department Lawyers Concluded Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China

Beyond the legal debate over the characterization of China’s repression of its Muslim population, the genocide designation carries enormous political weight, applying pressure on the United States and other countries to punish a global powerhouse whose trade, environmental, and security activities are entwined with their own.
 
But wielding the g-word without a solid legal basis also carries the risk of politicizing and eroding the power of the designation, which has been invoked in the past century to describe the worst episodes of mass killing, from the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust to the slaughter of around 800,000 Rwandans during the country’s  genocide.

The World Health Organization's preliminary report into the origins of the novel coronavirus will recommend more extensive contact tracing of the first known patient with Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, as well as the supply chain of nearly a dozen traders in the Huanan seafood market, which is thought to have played a role in the early spread of Covid-19 in late 2019, according to investigators familiar with the draft report.
 
Independent scientists told CNN the rudimentary investigative work being recommended should have been done many months previously by Chinese scientists looking into the virus' origin. They said they found it "surprising" and "implausible" Chinese scientists had not already done that work.
The panel's recommendations will pursue, among others, two key lines of inquiry, the investigators familiar with the draft report told CNN.
First, they will request further work on the contact history of the December 8, 2019, patient in Wuhan, the first case confirmed by Chinese scientists and the WHO panel as having Covid-19. The patient has not been identified publicly, but is, according to the WHO investigators, an office worker in his forties with no exotic travel or contact history, who lived with his wife and child.

Britain to challenge China at U.N. over access to Xinjiang

Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.
 
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain’s return to the U.N. Human Rights Council as a voting member by condemning the rights record of fellow council members China and Russia and will raise concerns about Myanmar and Belarus, his office said.
 
On China, Raab will refer to reports of abuses in Xinjiang, including torture, forced labour and forced sterilisation of women. “They are taking place on an industrial scale,” he will say, according to his office.
 
“The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or another independent fact-finding expert, must – and I repeat must – be given urgent and unfettered access to Xinjiang,” he will say.

Canadian lawmakers voted to support a motion formally recognizing China’s treatment of its ethnic Muslim Uighur population as a genocide on Monday.
 
The Conservative motion passed overwhelmingly in the House of Commons with 266 votes to zero. The Liberal cabinet abstained from voting.
 
An amendment to the motion, proposed by Bloc Quebecois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, calling on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Olympic Games out of China if the genocide continues also passed 229 to 29 votes.

Le parlement canadien a officiellement reconnu qu'un génocide était perpétré contre les Ouïghours en Chine. Les députés canadiens ont été unanimes. Ils ont pointé l'endoctrinement politique et anti-religieux, le travail forcé et la destruction de sites culturels de la minorité musulmane de la province du Xingiang.
 
Pékin a laissé explosé sa colère et qualifie cette reconnaissance de provocation malveillante.
 
"Il n'y a jamais eu de soi-disant génocide, de travail forcé ou d'oppression religieuse au Xinjiang. De telles accusations incendiaires sont fabriquées par ignorance et préjugés. Ce ne sont que des propos malveillants et politiquement motivés qui ne pourraient être plus éloignés de la vérité", a déclaré le ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères Wang Yi.
 
Selon diverses ONG, plus d'un million de Ouïghours sont en détention dans des camps de rééducation politique. Pékin dément et affirme qu'il s'agit de centres de formation professionnelle destinés à les éloigner du terrorisme et du séparatisme après des attentats attribués à des Ouïghours.
 

Le parlement canadien a officiellement reconnu qu'un génocide était perpétré contre les Ouïghours en Chine. Les députés canadiens ont été unanimes. Ils ont pointé l'endoctrinement politique et anti-religieux, le travail forcé et la destruction de sites culturels de la minorité musulmane de la province du Xingiang.
 
Pékin a laissé explosé sa colère et qualifie cette reconnaissance de provocation malveillante.
 
"Il n'y a jamais eu de soi-disant génocide, de travail forcé ou d'oppression religieuse au Xinjiang. De telles accusations incendiaires sont fabriquées par ignorance et préjugés. Ce ne sont que des propos malveillants et politiquement motivés qui ne pourraient être plus éloignés de la vérité", a déclaré le ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères Wang Yi.
 
Selon diverses ONG, plus d'un million de Ouïghours sont en détention dans des camps de rééducation politique. Pékin dément et affirme qu'il s'agit de centres de formation professionnelle destinés à les éloigner du terrorisme et du séparatisme après des attentats attribués à des Ouïghours.
 
Les députés canadiens appellent désormais le Premier ministre Justin Trudeau et son gouvernement à reconnaître officiellement qu'un génocide se déroule en Chine. Mais pour l'heure, si Justin Trudeau reconnaît d'énormes violations des droits de l'homme dans le Xingiang, il préfère se concerter avec ses partenaires de la communauté internationale quant à l'utilisation du terme génocide, qui avait toutefois été employé l'administration américaine de Donald Trump.
 
Les relations entre le Canada et la Chine traversent une crise sans précédent depuis fin 2018.  

La politique répressive de la Chine dans cette région va bien au-delà de la volonté légitime de combattre les actes de violence ou de « terrorisme ». Le présent document présente le cas de Rebiya Kadeer et Tohti Tunyaz, deux prisonniers d’opinion ouïghours, qui restent sous les verrous en dépit des appels en faveur de leur libération lancés par des gouvernements, de mécanismes de droits humains des Nations unies et des organisations non gouvernementales, comme Amnesty International

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China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong residents living in Germany since pro-democracy protests broke out in the city two years ago, the German interior ministry said in a letter to a lawmaker published on Tuesday.
 
The letter, sent to the head of parliament’s human rights committee, Gyde Jensen, in response to a request for information on the subject, could add to pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to take a firmer line toward China over human rights.
 
“Since the start of the protests in Hong Kong, increasing attempts by Chinese state actors in Germany to influence public opinion in favour of the Chinese government as well as actions against supporters of the protests have been identified,” the ministry said in the letter, first published in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and reviewed on Tuesday by Reuters.

Jensen, a member of the liberal FDP party, told Reuters: “It is about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.”