{"id":23673,"date":"2020-10-11T01:38:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/block-chinas-seat-on-human-rights-council-over-uighurs-urges-lisa-nandy"},"modified":"2020-10-11T01:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:38:42","slug":"block-chinas-seat-on-human-rights-council-over-uighurs-urges-lisa-nandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23673","title":{"rendered":"Block China\u2019s seat on human rights council over Uighurs, urges Lisa Nandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN must be allowed to conduct an inquiry into possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the shadow foreign secretary says<\/p>\n<p>Britain must oppose giving China a seat on the UN\u2019s human rights body this week in protest at its abuse of Uighur Muslims, Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary has warned.<\/p>\n<p>With the government facing accusations of confusion over its relationship with Beijing, Nandy will join other organisations in calling for Britain not to support China\u2019s place on the council until the UN is allowed to conduct an independent investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds\" title=\"\">its treatment of the Uighurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/block-chinas-seat-on-human-rights-council-over-uighurs-urges-lisa-nandy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN must be allowed to conduct an inquiry into possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the shadow foreign secretary saysBritain must oppose giving China a seat on the UN\u2019s human rights body this week in protest at its abuse of Uighur Muslims, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1614,"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":[50,950,53,1728,67,84,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-dominic-raab","category-human-rights","category-lisa-nandy","category-uighurs","category-united-nations","category-world-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\/23673","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\/1614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23674,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions\/23674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}