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China: Uyghurs

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 108, tabled on 19 December 2019

Question

Mr Steve Baker
Conservative
Wycombe
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation affecting Uighur Muslims in China; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

Mrs Heather Wheeler
Conservative
South Derbyshire
Commons

Answered on

7 January 2020

We have particularly serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang including the extra-judicial detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in “political re-education camps”, systematic restrictions on Uyghur culture and the practice of Islam, and extensive and invasive surveillance targeting minorities. Reports indicating that forced labour is being used and children are being forcibly separated from their parents add to the growing body of evidence about the disturbing situation that Uyghurs and other minorities are facing in Xinjiang.

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