The United States Foreign Affairs Committee has approved bipartite legislation this week to support Uighours and other ethnic minorities subject to human rights violations by China.
The Uighur Politics Act is the last legislative effort to protect the rights of the persecuted Muslim minority. The US government has determined that Chinese Uighours treatment is equivalent to genocide.
The bill is co-spared by nine Republicans and Democrats led by representative Young Kim and the representative friend Bera, who are respectively the president and the member of the chamber’s sub-comity classification for East Asia and the Pacific.
Legislation calls on the State Department to respond to abuses in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang – the Uighur Fatherland in China – and push the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to silence Uighur voices and develop a strategy to close the detention facilities and political replacement camps.
He also forces the American Secretary of State to supervise human rights policies to preserve ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic identities of Uighurs.
The Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee approved the bill on Tuesday. He faces various legislative obstacles before he became a law, including the adoption of the full chamber and the Senate.
The legislation was adopted by the House of Representatives in the last two terms of the Congress without further progress.
The latest congress has renewed separate legislation, the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, which authorized the sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the genocide against the Uighurs. Another law, adopted in 2021 and which has had the most impact, makes it illegal to import products used by Forced Uighur work in the United States.
This week too, the Uighur World Congress, the main group of world umbrellas arguing for Uighurs, said that it had filed a legal complaint in Paris against three French subsidiaries of large Chinese companies: Dahua Technology France, Hikvision France and Huawei France.
Submission, made by an eminent French human rights lawyer, accuses the three Chinese companies of complicity in crimes against humanity perpetrated against Uighurs by helping to build and maintain a mass monitoring system.
RFA contacted three companies in France to comment.
Edited by Mat Pennington.