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Uyghur group calls on ICC to arrest Chinese president Xi Jinping after Putin warrant
A gaggle representing the Uyghur folks is asking on the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) to pursue fees towards Chinese language President Xi Jinping after the court docket issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We name on the Worldwide Prison Court docket to behave and maintain Chinese language chief Xi Jinping accountable for the continued genocide and crimes towards humanity towards Uyghurs and different Turkic peoples,” Prime Minister Salih Hudayar of the East Turkistan Authorities in Exile stated in a Saturday press launch.
“The Worldwide Prison Court docket should uphold justice and fulfill its dedication to ‘By no means Once more’ by investigating the continued genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct function on this Holocaust-like genocide within the twenty first century.”
The press launch echoes what authorities officers throughout the globe and pro-Uyghur activists have claimed for years concerning China’s “ongoing marketing campaign of mass internment, compelled labor, compelled sterilization, and compelled household separation towards Turkic ethnic teams in East Turkistan, which has been formally designated as genocide by the U.S. authorities and the Parliaments of almost a dozen western nations since 2021.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes arms together with his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping on the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)
The press launch comes the identical week the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Russian official Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for his or her alleged involvement in struggle crimes throughout the invasion of Ukraine.
The ICC stated that Putin “is allegedly chargeable for the struggle crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants (kids) and that of illegal switch of inhabitants (kids) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
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China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and different largely Muslim ethnic teams within the western area of Xinjiang could represent crimes towards humanity, the U.N. human rights workplace stated in 2022 (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed the arrest warrant shortly after it was issued.
“Russia is just not a celebration to the Rome Statute of the Worldwide Prison Court docket and doesn’t bear obligations beneath it,” Zakharova stated. “Russia doesn’t cooperate with this physique, and doable ‘recipes’ for arrest coming from the Worldwide Court docket of Justice can be legally null and void for us.”
The press launch from the exiled Uyghurs outlines related allegations of compelled deportations of ethnically Turkic folks.
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Ethnic Uighurs pray inside a mosque in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Area. (Reuters/Nir Elias )
“In June 2021, legal professionals representing the ETGE and ETNM submitted extra proof to the ICC that the Chinese language Authorities is implementing a coverage of rounding up Uyghur and different ethnically Turkic folks from outdoors China, together with ICC member States similar to neighboring Tajikistan, and forcefully deporting them again to East Turkistan (“Xinjiang”), the place they’re subjected to genocidal acts and crimes towards humanity,” the press launch acknowledged.
“The brand new proof highlighted that upwards of three,000 Uyghurs had been forcibly deported from Tajikistan with a further 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan.”
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Moreover, the press launch states that over 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and different Turkic folks have been put in internment camps and that over 880,500 Uyghur and different Turkic kids have been forcibly separated from their households.
Fox Information Digital reached out to China’s U.S. Consulate and the ICC for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
“The ICC is presently contemplating all the proof we’ve got submitted with a view to determine on opening an ICC investigation,” Hudayar informed Fox Information Digital in an announcement.
“We’re in touch with the Workplace of the Prosecutor in regards to the proof submitted and are requesting that the Prosecutor ought to act immediately to begin an ICC investigation and maintain these accountable to account.”
Xi is scheduled to fly to Russia subsequent week to fulfill with Putin for a gathering the place the Kremlin says the 2 leaders will focus on “problems with additional growth of complete partnership and strategic interplay between Russia and China.”