{"id":150629,"date":"2019-12-30T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=150629"},"modified":"2019-12-27T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T09:11:10","slug":"eu-china-must-close-its-re-education-camps-for-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-meps-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/12\/eu-china-must-close-its-re-education-camps-for-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-meps-say\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: China Must Close Its \u201cRe-Education Camps\u201d for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Meps Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/european-parliament-news-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-150632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/european-parliament-news-logo-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/european-parliament-news-logo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/european-parliament-news-logo.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Torture, digital surveillance and arbitrary detentions without any charge\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Harassment of Uyghurs abroad\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Call on Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Uyghurs-3-china.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Uyghurs-3-china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Uyghurs-3-china.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Uyghurs-3-china-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Uyghurs-3-china-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>19 Dec 2018 &#8211; <\/em>MEPs express serious concern about China\u2019s repression of the Uyghurs and call on the Chinese government to close the \u201cre-education camps\u201d in Xinjiang immediately.<\/p>\n<p>MEPs strongly condemn that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs are being sent to political \u201cre-education camps\u201d based on a system of predictive policing, in a resolution adopted on Thursday. They urge the Chinese government to immediately end the practice of arbitrary detentions without any charge, trial or conviction for criminal offence and to immediately and unconditionally release all detained persons, including this year\u2019s laureate of the Sakharov Prize, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20191018IPR64639\/ilham-tohti-awarded-the-2019-sakharov-prize\" >Ilham Tohti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mass internment and intrusive digital surveillance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is solid information that Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang province are subject to arbitrary detention, torture, egregious restrictions on religious practice and extensive digitised surveillance, MEPs argue. They call on the Chinese authorities to give independent journalists and international observers free access to Xinjiang province to examine the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>MEPs also express their deep concern regarding reports about Uyghurs abroad being harassed by the Chinese authorities in order to compel them to inform against other Uyghurs, return to Xinjiang or remain silent about the situation there, sometimes by detaining their family members.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123488\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Uyghur-china-muslim2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123488\" class=\"wp-image-123488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Uyghur-china-muslim2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Uyghur-china-muslim2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Uyghur-china-muslim2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Uyghur-china-muslim2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A policeman checks the identity card of a man in Kashgar, a predominantly Uyghur city in Xinjiang. THOMAS PETER\/REUTERS<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Appropriate and effective measures against the Chinese authorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MEPs finally stress that tools used so far by the EU have not led to tangible progress in China\u2019s human rights record, which has only deteriorated during the last decade. They recall it is vital that the EU raises the issue of human rights violation in China at every political and human rights dialogue with the Chinese authorities. MEPs call on the Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets, if deemed appropriate and effective, against the Chinese officials responsible for severe repression of basic rights in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was adopted by show of hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pressure has been increasing on Beijing, after a recent leak of classified documents (China cables). They appear to confirm that the Chinese government has detained more than a million Muslims, mostly Uyghurs, in \u201cre-education camps\u201d in the north-western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese authorities said the \u201cvocational training centres\u201d were being used to combat violent religious extremism.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20191212IPR68927\/china-must-close-its-re-education-camps-for-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-meps-say\" >Go to Original \u2013 europarl.europa.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Dec 2018 &#8211; MEPs express serious concern about China\u2019s repression of the Uyghurs and call on the Chinese government to close the \u201cre-education camps\u201d in Xinjiang immediately.<br \/>\n\u2022\tTorture, digital surveillance and arbitrary detentions without any charge<br \/>\n\u2022\tHarassment of Uyghurs abroad<br \/>\n\u2022\tCall on Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[239,244,120,101,267,260,487,866,634,335,287,103,107,384,985,880,99,265,1314],"class_list":["post-150629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-cultural-violence","tag-geopolitics","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-islam","tag-muslims","tag-power","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-secularism","tag-social-justice","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-terrorism","tag-uyghur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}