On April 18th, 2019 the European Parliament passed an important resolution which called on the EU to take substantive action to hold China accountable for its horrific repression of ethnic and religious minorities. The situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the plight of the Uyghur people were heavily focused on throughout the resolution.
The resolution contains a number of important provisions, calling on the Chinese government to stop its unacceptable repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious groups and urging the EU to take further action. Crucially, the resolution calls on China to close the political internment camps, release all those in arbitrary detention and to give details of those who have disappeared to their families.
China has in the past been accused of organ harvesting and crimes against humanity on an industrial scale in relation to its prison populations as well as practitioners of Falun Gong in the early 2000s. Organ transplants have become very easily available in China with perfect matches based on DNA analysis possibly within a few weeks. The innocent victims include Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans and House Church Christians.
The resolution contains a number of important provisions, calling on the Chinese government to stop its unacceptable repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious groups and urging the EU to take further action. Crucially, the resolution calls on China to close the political internment camps, release all those in arbitrary detention and to give details of those who have disappeared to their families.
China has in the past been accused of organ harvesting and crimes against humanity on an industrial scale in relation to its prison populations as well as practitioners of Falun Gong in the early 2000s. Organ transplants have become very easily available in China with perfect matches based on DNA analysis possibly within a few weeks. The innocent victims include Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans and House Church Christians.
