By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) – “People’s Court” which was established to assess whether the alleged violations of China’s rights to Uyghur’s people were genocide opened in London on Friday, with witnesses who alleged that prisoners in prisoners for Uyghurs routinely humiliated, tortured and misused.
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Geoffrey Nice chairman said more than three dozen witnesses would make accusations of “grave” against China’s authority for four days of hearings.
Courts, consisting of lawyers, academics and entrepreneurs, do not have u.K. Government support or strength to provide sanctions or punish China. But the organizer hopes that the process of placing proofs will force international action to overcome alleged violations of Uyghurs, most of the Muslim ethnic groups.
Nice, a British lawyer who led the prosecution of the former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and had worked with an international criminal court, said the forum would create “permanent evidence and notes, if found, crimes made.”
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Funded by the World Uyghur Congress and individual contributions, investigations were modeled at the “People’s Court,” before including those organized in the 1960s by Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre philosophers to investigate the action of A.S. in the Vietnam war.
Tribunal London is the latest effort to request China’s accountability for alleged violations of rights to Uyghurs and others, especially Muslim and ethnic Turkish minorities.
It is estimated that 1 million or more people – most of them Uyghurs – have been locked up in the education camps back in the region of West China in the past few years, according to researchers. The Chinese authority has been accused of imposing forced labor, control of systematic forced birth and torture, and separating children from imprisoned parents.
In April, the British parliament – Although not the British government – following the legislature in Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada in stating that Beijing’s policy of Uyghurs was amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. Government A.S. have done the same thing.
The first witness to testify on Friday, Teacher Qelbinur Sidik, said the guards routinely insulted inmates in the camp for men in Xinjiang where he taught the Mandarin class in 2016.
“The guards in the camp did not treat prisoners as humans. They were treated less than a dog,” he said through a translator.
“The things I have witnessed and naturally, I can’t forget,” he said.
Another witness, Omir Bekalli, said he was held in three camps for Uyghur and the men of Kazakh were accused of extremism and terrorism. He said the detainees were held by 50 per cell, considering that drugs were unknown and experienced a hard physical punishment. He said some inmates he knew died under torment.
Court witnesses who spoke with the Associated Press before the hearing included a woman who said that she was forced to have an abortion at the age of 6 1/2 months of pregnancy, a former doctor who talked about Draconian’s birth control policy, and the former prisoner who accused him “torture day and night “By the Chinese army when he was imprisoned in the distance border area.
Beijing firmly rejected the accusation. Officials have characterized camps, which they think are now closed, as vocational training centers to teach Chinese, work skills, and law to support economic development
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