Uyghur group calls on ICC to arrest Chinese president Xi Jinping after Putin warrant
A group representing the Uyghur people is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to pursue charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping after the court issued an arrest warrant. Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We call on the International Criminal Court to indict Chinese leader Xi Jinping for ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples,” Salih Hidayar, the prime minister of the exiled Eastern Turkish government, said in a statement. Be held accountable.” Saturday’s press release.
“The International Criminal Court must uphold justice and fulfill its commitment to ‘never again’ by investigating the ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct role in this holocaust-like genocide in the 21st century.” Should be done.”
The press release echoes what government officials and pro-Uyghur activists around the world say about China’s “ongoing campaign of mass internment, forced labor, forced sterilization and forced family separation against ethnic Turkic groups in East Turkestan.” The passage has been claimed for years, which has been officially recognized. Since 2021, the US government and the parliaments of about a dozen Western countries have designated it as genocide.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozina/Pool)
The press release comes from the ICC this week. An arrest warrant was issued. For Putin and Russian official Maria Alekseevna Lova-Belova for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.
The ICC said Putin is “allegedly responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of population (children) and illegal transfer of population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
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In 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Office said that China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang could amount to crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria Zakharova denied the arrest warrant shortly after it was issued.
“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and does not bear obligations under it,” Zakharova said. “Russia does not cooperate with this institution, and possible ‘tricks’ of arrest by the International Court of Justice would be legally void for us.”
Press releases from exiled Uighurs outline similar allegations of forced deportations of ethnic Turks.
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Ethnic Uighurs pray inside a mosque in Urumqi, China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Reuters/Nir Elias)
“In June 2021, lawyers representing ETGE and ETNM submitted additional evidence to the ICC that the Chinese government is pursuing a policy of arresting Uyghurs and other ethnic Turks from outside China, including ICC member states such as neighboring Tajikistan, and forced deportations. They were returned to East Turkestan (“Sinkiang”), where they were charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, the press release said. is made.
“New evidence highlights that more than 3,000 Uighurs were forcibly deported from Tajikistan and an additional 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan.”
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Additionally, the press release states that more than 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic nationals are being held in concentration camps and more than 880,500 Uyghur and other Turkic children have been forcibly separated from their families.
Fox News reached out to Digital US Consulate in China and contacted the ICC for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
“The ICC is currently considering all the evidence we have submitted to decide whether to open an ICC investigation,” Hadyar told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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“We are in contact with the prosecutor’s office regarding the evidence submitted and are requesting that the prosecutor open an ICC investigation without delay and bring those responsible to justice.”
The thing is scheduled. Flight to Russia Next week Putin will meet for a meeting where the Kremlin says the two leaders will discuss “issues of further developing the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China”.