whereas this material demonstrates the informed role, active support and direct involvement of the Central Government in Beijing, including Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, and of leading Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region officials in directing the mass internment policy in Xinjiang whereas the documents also point to President Xi Jinping’s informed and active support for Xinjiang’s ‘re-education’, ‘strike hard’ and ‘de-extremification’ campaigns, as well as for continued spending on additional detention facilities and staff to manage the influx of detainees į. whereas the Xinjiang police files document in detail – and, for the first time, with numerous photographs – the dimensions of the systematic, brutal and arbitrary repression in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang Į. whereas the responsible Chinese authorities have denied the allegations of massive and structural human rights violations in Xinjiang ĭ. whereas the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a number of international media outlets, including the BBC, Spain’s El Pais, France’s Le Monde and Germany’s Der Spiegel, were able to examine the Xinjiang police files Ĭ. whereas the promotion of and respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law should be at the centre of the EU’s relations with China, in line with the EU’s commitment to uphold these values in its external action and China’s commitment to adhere to them in its own development and international cooperation ī. – having regard to Rules 144(5) and 132(4) of its Rules of Procedure,Ī. – having regard to Article 36 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, which guarantees all citizens the right to freedom of religious belief, and to Article 4 thereof, which upholds the rights of ethnic minorities, – having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, – having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 (3) and to Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 of 7 December 2020 (4) concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses, – having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966, – having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, – having regard to its previous resolutions and reports on the situation in China, in particular those of 17 December 2020 on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (1) and of 19 December 2019 on the situation of the Uyghurs in China (China Cables) (2), The call for a Convention for the revision of the TreatiesĪ new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labourĮuropean Parliament resolution of 9 June 2022 on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files ( 2022/2700(RSP)) Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court International procurement instrument ***I The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) Violations of media freedom and safety of journalists in Georgia The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua The human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files
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