United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 102675
Xinjiang: Uyghurs
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12 January 2022
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17 January 2022 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK Government has made an assessment under the Genocide Convention of (a) whether genocide is taking place and (b) the level of risk of genocide in Xinjiang.
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12 January 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK Government has made an assessment under the Genocide Convention of (a) whether genocide is taking place and (b) the level of risk of genocide in Xinjiang.
Source: Commons
17 January 2022
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Any judgment as to whether genocide has occurred is a matter for a competent court, rather than for governments or non-judicial bodies. This does not prevent us from taking robust action to address serious violations of human rights, as we are doing in th...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-12/102675
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1402289
- uk · wq-1402289 · source updated 17 January 2022