UK Lawmakers Unanimously Urge Government to Assess Genocide Risk in Xinjiang, Sanction Officials

British Conservative Party MPs Nusrat Ghani (C), Sir Iain Duncan Smith (R), and UK director of the World Uyghur Congress UK Director Rahima Mahmut at a demonstration call on the British Parliament to vote to recognise alleged persecution of China's Muslim minority Uyghur people as genocide and crimes against humanity in London on April 22, 2021. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

UK ministers have been urged to stop “abdicating their legal and moral duties” and act after a tribunal found evidence “beyond reasonable doubt” of torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide in China’s Xinjiang region.

In a renewed effort to pressure the government to recognise the genocide, the UK Parliament unanimously passed a motion on Jan. 20 calling for an urgent assessment and sanctions against the perpetrators.