Uyghur Rights Groups Support Request To Debate China’s Xinjiang Record

September 27, 2022

“Governments must seize this opportunity to finally respond to the abuses,” said Omer Kanat, executive director of the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project.

While Uyghur rights groups are encouraged by some of the Western governments’ action, “the response from governments needs to be commensurate with the gravity of the abuses Uyghurs have faced, and are still facing, on the ground,” Peter Irwin, senior program officer at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, told VOA.

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