The European Parliament, meeting in plenary today (December 17), has overwhelmingly approved a draft resolution urging EU leaders to use new sanctions to punish Communist Party officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere.
The European Parliament today voted by an overwhelming 89% to approve a draft resolution urging EU leaders to use new sanctions to punish Chinese Communist Party officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere. 604 in favour, 20 against, 57 abstentions.
The draft resolution urges EU leaders to take action against Communist Party officials in Xinjiang. The draft is aimed at Communist Party officials who “develop and implement mass detentions and forced Labour of Uighurs and other Muslims” in Xinjiang, as well as major state entities such as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
The draft also says that people who “plot to suppress fundamental rights such as freedom of religion and freedom of movement” in other places, such as Xinjiang and Tibet, should also be punished.
The European parliament, the biggest party, the centre-right people’s party today 17 wrote on its website, called on the eu member states against uighurs are forced labor to implement effective control mechanism, and urged them to native to xinjiang cotton and cotton products ban, and demanded that the European Union and persecution in xinjiang uygur people in mainland China and Hong Kong Chinese officials responsible for violation of human rights of targeted sanctions.
“Improper complicity”
“We must not become morally complicit in appalling human rights violations by buying goods produced with Chinese forced labor,” Said Miriam Lexmann, a European member of Parliament, as she debated the resolution condemning the situation of Uighurs in Xinjiang today in plenary session.
She added: “All aspects of our foreign policy must be guided by the values of the European Union. We must make sure that we always uphold those values. These values are not weakness, they are strength.
Mr. Lexmann, who negotiated the draft text on behalf of the People’s Party group in the European Parliament, also expressed regret for China’s crackdown on other ethnic minorities, including the Kazaks, and strongly criticized China’s interference in Hong Kong.
She concluded, “Now is the time for democracies to come together and stand up for our common values. We must actively support the millions of people around the world who yearn for freedom every day. The EU cannot stand by and make full use of all its tools, including the Magnitsky Act “.
“I accuse.”
Raphael Glucksmann, a left-wing French writer and European member of parliament from the Public Squares party, posted a video of his speech to the European Parliament today on his Instagram feed. He mimics the sentence pattern of The Great French writer Zola’s I accuse:
“I accuse the Leaders of the Communist Party of committing the most serious crime against humanity of the 21st century by expelling and extermination of the Uighur people; I accuse the international community of being passive and silent in allowing this crime to occur; I accuse leaders of Muslim countries from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia of holding up the banner of their faith while supporting China’s policy of destroying mosques and desecrating cemeteries; I accuse Nike, Zara and the greedy bosses of many multinational corporations of profiting from the enslavement of a people; I accuse the cowardly and boneless European leaders whom we urged a year ago to take action to close these camps; But what have we done in the past year? Nothing, nothing, nothing.”
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