{"id":23267,"date":"2020-09-29T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/uk-courts-could-be-given-power-to-rule-that-uighurs-are-facing-genocide"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:37:04","slug":"uighurs-could-be-allowed-to-seek-genocide-ruling-against-china-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23267","title":{"rendered":"Uighurs could be allowed to seek genocide ruling against China in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: MPs and peers aim to grant minorities in China the right to petition British courts<\/p>\n<p>Uighurs and other Muslim minorities would be given the right to petition a UK high court judge to declare that genocide is taking place in China, requiring the UK government to curtail trade ties with Beijing, under proposals brought by MPs and peers.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-party parliamentary revolt is causing deep concern in government, where there are fears that judges and human rights campaigners could be empowered to throw UK-China trade relations into turmoil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/uk-courts-could-be-given-power-to-rule-that-uighurs-are-facing-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: MPs and peers aim to grant minorities in China the right to petition British courtsUighurs and other Muslim minorities would be given the right to petition a UK high court judge to declare that genocide is taking place in China, requiring th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,53,447,86,371,67,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-law","category-religion","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}