{"id":11828,"date":"2019-12-06T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/atrocity-of-the-century-uighur-activist-urges-australia-to-take-tougher-stance-against-china"},"modified":"2019-12-06T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:00:18","slug":"atrocity-of-the-century-uighur-activist-urges-australia-to-take-tougher-stance-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11828","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Atrocity of the century&#8217;: Uighur activist urges Australia to take tougher stance against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rushan Abbas says countries doing business with China are enabling its mass detention of 3 million people, including her sister<\/p>\n<p>A leading Uighur activist, Rushan Abbas, has urged Australian MPs to take a stronger stance against the Chinese regime, while backing controversial comparisons between the state\u2019s authoritarianism and Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas, who met with MPs in Canberra on Thursday and held a roundtable at the US Embassy on the plight of the Uighur Muslim minority in western China\u2019s Xinjiang province, said that \u201cmodern day\u201d concentration camps holding as many as 3 million Uighurs were a case of \u201chistory repeating itself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/atrocity-of-the-century-uighur-activist-urges-australia-to-take-tougher-stance-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rushan Abbas says countries doing business with China are enabling its mass detention of 3 million people, including her sisterA leading Uighur activist, Rushan Abbas, has urged Australian MPs to take a stronger stance against the Chinese regime, while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,324,50,67,47,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-uighurs","category-us-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11829,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions\/11829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}