{"id":20832,"date":"2020-07-22T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/world-is-legally-obliged-to-pressure-china-on-uighurs-leading-lawyers-say"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:27:10","slug":"world-is-legally-obliged-to-pressure-china-on-uighurs-leading-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20832","title":{"rendered":"World is legally obliged to pressure China on Uighurs, leading lawyers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Sanctions on China and companies operating there, along with use of treaty agreements, can bring Beijing to account, British barristers argue<\/p>\n<p>The international community is legally obliged to take action on China\u2019s alleged abuse of Uighur and other Turkic minorities, a prominent group of British lawyers has said, suggesting nations use sanctions, corporate accountability mechanisms, and international treaties preventing racial discrimination to pressure Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s refusal to be held legally accountable for the widespread and documented allegations did not absolve the global community of responsibility, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) said in a report released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/world-is-legally-obliged-to-pressure-china-on-uighurs-leading-lawyers-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Sanctions on China and companies operating there, along with use of treaty agreements, can bring Beijing to account, British barristers argueThe international community is legally obliged to take action on China\u2019s alleged abuse of Uighur and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,53,67,52,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-human-rights","category-uighurs","category-uk-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\/20832","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20833,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions\/20833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}