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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 127643, tabled on 9 December 2020

Question

Afzal Khan
Labour
Manchester, Gorton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent leak of a prisoner list from a Chinese internment camp showing how authorities in Xinjiang target Muslim minorities for detention.

Answer

Nigel Adams
Conservative
Selby and Ainsty
Commons

Answered on

14 December 2020

We are aware of recent reports on the use of data by the Chinese authorities to target Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. These reports add to the growing body of evidence of gross human rights violations perpetrated against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the region. We have repeatedly condemned these abuses and call on China to end arbitrary detention, in line with its international obligations.

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