UYGHURS/UIGHURS AND REBIYA KADEER

Early Day Motion
EDM 2138
UYGHURS/UIGHURS AND REBIYA KADEER16.10.2007
Bottomley, Peter
That this House calls on the Government to ask the government of China to respect the ethnic historical differences of the Uyghur people of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and to restore their right to equal treatment in employment and, under the law, to freedom of speech and religious worship and to education in their own language; to ask for an end to the persecution of peaceful critics and to aggressive attempts at assimilation such as the removal of young Uyghur women to the eastern provinces of China; and asks for the immediate release of the children of Rebiya Kadeer, unjustly imprisoned or detained following her election as President of the World Uyghur Congress, and of the Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil, who should be allowed to rejoin his family in Canada.
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