Question 14418 — foreign policy

Summary

Mrs Danièle Obono questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs on the alarming situation of the Uyghur population in China. Indeed, according to the Human Rights Watch report entitled “Eradicating ideological viruses: wave of repression in China against Muslims in Xinjiang” published on September 9, 2018, the Uyghurs are currently victims of a “massive and systematic campaign of human rights violations” organized by the government. Still according to this report, this population of 13 million Turkic Muslims suffers massive arbitrary detentions, acts of torture and ill-treatment, forced political indoctrination, collective punishment, restrictions on movement and communication, religious restrictions and mass surveillance, in clear violation of international law. relating to human rights. Credible estimates indicate that around a million people are detained in pretrial detention centers, prisons, or in political education camps. Within this last place of detention, which has no basis in Chinese law, the detainees benefit from no respect for their right to a due process: no indictment, no trial or even lawyer. In mid-August 2018, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination labeled Xinjiang a “lawless zone.” Thus, she would like the Government to detail the actions, multilateral, within the United Nations Human Rights Council as in all international humanitarian bodies, or unilateral, that it intends to carry out in order to ensure the definitive end of this campaign repression carried out by the Chinese authorities.

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