Pressure builds to label Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs as genocide while subcommittee’s report inches towards tabling

Mehmet Tohti, executive director of Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, says a recognition of genocide from Canada is 'long overdue.'

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau has said an independent investigation is needed to observe the internment camps in Xinjiang. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

February 10, 2021

After releasing a statement last October declaring that the Chinese persecution of Muslim Uyghurs amounted to genocide, the House Subcommittee on International Human Rights' now-completed report on the human rights situation is headed to the Foreign Affairs Committee for approval. The report comes ...

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