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Uyghurs: Concentration Camps

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 8051, tabled on 24 May 2022

Question

Rachael Maskell
Labour
York Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has held with her Chinese counterpart on the reported shoot to kill policies at Uyghur concentration camps.

Answer

Amanda Milling
Conservative
Cannock Chase
Commons

Answered on

6 June 2022

As the Foreign Secretary made clear in her statement of 24 May (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-statement-on-xinjiang-24-may-2022), these latest reports provide further shocking details of China's gross human rights violations in Xinjiang. We have raised our serious concerns about this new and compelling evidence with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing and the Chinese Embassy in London.

We will continue to raise our deep concern about the situation in Xinjiang directly with the Chinese authorities at the highest levels. The Prime Minister did so most recently in a telephone call with President Xi on 25 March.

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