The report, released by The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), stated that the Chinese government and Communist Party have taken unprecedented methods to extend their repressive policies by way of censorship, intimidation, and the detention of folks in China for working out their basic human rights.
“Nowhere is this more evident than in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) where new evidence emerged that crimes against humanity–and possibly genocide–are occurring, and in Hong Kong, where the “a single nation, two systems” framework has been effectively dismantled,” study a report released on Thursday.
The actions of the Chinese government also “contravene both the letter and the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” violate its obligations below the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the Chinese government “has signed but not ratified” and violate the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ratified in 2001, the report stated additional.
Chinese authorities arbitrarily detain Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups. In contrast, Chinese state media has claimed that these facilities are applied for vocational coaching and anti-terrorism efforts.
The report recommends that members of the U.S. Congress and Administration officials are encouraged to contact on the Chinese government to finish the mass arbitrary detention of predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities, such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, and other individuals, in mass internment camps, and release these at present detained.
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The CECC report named for a formal US “determination on whether atrocities are being committed” in Xinjiang.
“The United States must continue to stand with the people of China in their struggle and lead the world in a united and coordinated response to the human rights abuses of the Chinese government,” mentioned CECC Chairman Jim McGovern in a statement.
The Democrat representative mentioned that each Congress and the incoming President-elect Joe Biden-led Administration ought to use the reporting and suggestions contained in this report “to hold the Chinese government accountable and more effectively prioritize the promotion of universal human rights and the rule of law in the US-China relationship.”
The report comes just after the United States on Wednesday announced a ban on the entry of cotton and tomato goods from China”s Xinjiang area amid allegations that detainee or prison labour from Uyghurs went into producing them, according to the US Customs and Border Protection.
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, in August, came down heavily on China for its human rights abuses in Xinjiang and mentioned the US sanctions will place enterprise operating in the area on notice. Pompeo in July mentioned that it is time “for a new alliance of democracies” to counter Beijing’s aggressive policies.
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China has been rebuked globally for cracking down on Uyghur Muslims by sending them to mass detention camps, interfering in their religious activities, and sending members of the neighborhood to undergo some kind of forcible re-education or indoctrination.
Beijing, on the other hand, has vehemently denied that it is engaged in human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang when reports from journalists, NGOs, and former detainees have surfaced, highlighting the Chinese Communist Party”s brutal crackdown on the ethnic neighborhood, according to a report.
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Some specialists mentioned reports of mass surveillance, torture, arbitrary detentions, and forced detentions employed by China against Uyghurs quantity to “demographic genocide”.