{"id":25782,"date":"2020-12-18T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/hold-china-to-account-for-uighur-abuses"},"modified":"2020-12-18T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:34:46","slug":"hold-china-to-account-for-uighur-abuses-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25782","title":{"rendered":"Hold China to account for Uighur abuses | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rahima Mahmut<\/strong> and <strong>Rose Harvie<\/strong> add their voices to that of the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, in urging readers to take action to put pressure on China <\/p>\n<p>The moving call to arms by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, challenges us all to speak out against what is happening to Uighurs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/15\/chief-rabbi-silent-plight-uighurs-atrocity-china\" title=\"\">As chief rabbi, I can no longer remain silent about the plight of the Uighurs<\/a>, 15 December).<\/p>\n<p>The last few years have been unimaginably painful for me as a Uighur exile, but I take hope from the fact that the world is gradually waking up to what is happening. In the last few days we have seen new evidence published by the Center for Global Policy that nearly 600,000 Uighurs are forced into slave labour in cotton fields (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds\" title=\"\">Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests<\/a>, 15 December) and we\u2019ve seen Huawei exposed for testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/dec\/17\/alibaba-offered-clients-facial-recognition-to-identify-uighur-people\" title=\"\">facial recognition software that targets Uighurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/hold-china-to-account-for-uighur-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahima Mahmut and Rose Harvie add their voices to that of the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, in urging readers to take action to put pressure on China The moving call to arms by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, challenges us all to speak out against what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,50,447,371,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-religion","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782\/revisions\/25783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}