'A second set of hearings will be held on September 10-13. The tribunal is expected to issue a final verdict on whether China is committing genocide or crimes against humanity in the XUAR in December.''..a campaign to deliberately destroy the Uyghurs, and constitute the commission of genocide as defined in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention of 1948 to which the country is a signatory and ratifying state.
The U.S. State Department — as well as parliaments in Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, and Lithuania — have described China’s actions in the region as “genocide,” while the New York-based group Human Rights Watch says they constitute crimes against humanity. The Italian parliament voted unanimously last week to condemn Chinese atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
The hearing gave witnesses “the belief there’s a legitimate international mechanism to seek justice for all their suffering and hold Chinese officials accountable for their heinous crimes," World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa told RFA's Uyghur Service after Friday's opening session. "They have more faith today in international law, global justice and democracy.”
“The Uyghur Tribunal hearing has gone extremely well today in spite of China’s disinformation campaign and diplomatic threats against tribunal, camp survivors and witnesses,” the Germany-based advocate added.
Schona Jolly, a London-based international human rights and equality lawyer and writer, submitted written testimony for Friday, but did not appear at the proceedings.
“The severe ill-treatment, repression and abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by the Chinese State has been widely reported and these allegations have emanated from a number of diverse and credible sources,” she wrote.
Jolly also said that because China has no “reliable avenues” for a fair, independent, and impartial resolution within the country, it is reasonable for outside parties to turn to international legal mechanisms to enforce China’s obligations under international law.
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A second set of hearings will be held on September 10-13. The tribunal is expected to issue a final verdict on whether China is committing genocide or crimes against humanity in the XUAR in December.'
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Uyghur Tribunal Hears Grim Accounts of Rape And Torture in China’s Xinjiang, June 4, 2021
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