Rights groups to file case on crimes against Uyghurs in Argentine court

December 14, 2021

Two Uyghur advocacy groups are preparing to submit a criminal complaint to an Argentine court with international jurisdiction, laying out alleged crimes committed against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), based in Washington, and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), headquartered in Munich, Germany, have hired London-based barrister Michael Polak to file the complaints with the Federal Criminal Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires, the groups said Tuesday.

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