Tag: genocide

Recognize CCP’s Persecution of Falun Gong as a Genocide: Advocates Mark 22 Years of Suppression at DC Rally

WASHINGTON—It’s time for the United States to recognize the “genocide occurring against practitioners of Falun Gong in China,” a religious freedom expert told rally attendees in Washington on July 16. Noting the U.S. government’s designation that Chinese regime’s repression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region amounted to a genocide, Nina Shea, a senior fellow and…


Decouple From Genocide: Biden China Warnings Miss Point

Commentary The U.S. government is issuing new warnings to business against operating supply chains that reach into Xinjiang (East Turkestan), China, where there is ongoing forced labor and genocide, as well as warnings for investors in Hong Kong, where national security laws from Beijing are criminalizing even verbal resistance to China’s growing power. The warnings…


US Shines a Spotlight on Xinjiang Genocide in Atrocities Prevention Report

The U.S. Department of State drew attention to Beijing’s ongoing “genocide and crimes against humanity” in China’s far-western Xinjiang region in an annual congressional report released on Monday. The 2021 report on genocide and atrocities prevention highlights the Chinese regime as a “Country of Particular Concern” for the “genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, who are…


Bliken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…


Blinken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…


Housakos Accuses Senators of Appeasing China, After Defeat of Motion to Recognize Genocide of Uyghurs

Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos says he finds it unusual that a motion he introduced to recognize communist China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as an act of genocide was voted down. The motion was voted down 33-29 in the Senate on June 29, with 13 abstentions. It was supported by Conservative senators, while…


Senator Who Sponsored Motion to Recognize Uyghur Genocide Says Some Senators Are ‘Apologists for China’ After Motion Defeated

Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos says he finds it unusual that a motion he introduced to recognize communist China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as an act of genocide was voted down. The motion was voted down 33-29 in the Senate on June 29, with 13 abstentions. It was supported by Conservative senators, while…


The Tragic Truth: Organ Harvesting in China

Commentary For nearly two decades, allegations of organ harvesting in communist China have emerged. Today, China’s organ transplant trade is estimated to be a $1 billion industry, reportedly fueled by the exploitation of “prisoners of conscience.” After conducting an investigation, a seven-member international and independent China Tribunal issued a judgement in December 2018. The judgment…


Uyghur Protesters Rally at Parliament Hill as Part of Global Effort Against Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Rallies were held in more than 50 cities around the world on June 23 calling on governments to boycott Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The coalition of over 180 human rights groups that organized the Global Day of Action on International Olympic Day urged governments in an open letter to “take a…


International Lawmakers Call for UN Investigation Into Uyghur Genocide

A group of international lawmakers has called on the United Nations to investigate alleged genocide against Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in China, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) said on Monday. It comes as the 47th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (OHCHR) began in Geneva on Monday. In a letter to OHCHR President…