EU Parliament slams China for forced labour and human rights abuse of Uyghurs

<p style="font-weight: 400;">The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that strongly condemns China over allegations of forced labor by minority groups.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">"Parliament strongly condemns the Chinese government-led system of forced labour — in particular the exploitation of Uyghur, ethnic Kazakh and Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minority groups — in factories within and outside internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region," the EU body said in a statement Friday.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">European Parliament on Thursday slammed China for continuing with the practice of forced labour and human rights abuse of the Uyghur minority community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Parliament strongly condemns the Chinese government-led system of forced labour – in particular the exploitation of Uyghur, ethnic Kazakh and Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minority groups – in factories within and outside internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It also denounces the continued transfer of forced labourers to other Chinese administrative divisions, and the fact that well-known European brands and companies have been benefiting from forced Chinese labour,” an official statement issued by the European Parliament reads.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Member of European Parliament (MEP) debated the increasing evidence of forced labour and alarming situation of many religious and ethnic minorities in China, in particular Uyghurs and Kazakhs.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“These violate their human dignity, as well as their rights to freedom of cultural expression and religious belief, to freedom of speech and expression, and to peaceful assembly and association,” the press release stated.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The European People’s Party (EPP) Group called on the EU Member States to implement effective control mechanisms in response to Uyghur forced labour and urges them to impose an import ban on cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">“They also deeply deplore the continued persecution and the serious and systematic human rights violations that amount to crimes against humanity, while urging the Chinese government to put an immediate end to the practice of arbitrary detention without charge, trial, or conviction for criminal offenses of members of the Uyghur and other Muslim minorities. MEPs call on the Chinese government to end the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities in camps and detention centers and demand the immediate and unconditional release of those detained,” the release further added.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year in June, 50 United Nations human rights experts issued a joint statement expressing concerns at the Chinese government’s mass violations in Xinjiang the suppression of Covid-19-related information, and the targeting of human rights defenders across the country.</p>.