{"id":29131,"date":"2021-03-02T06:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/australian-senator-calls-to-recognise-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-as-genocide"},"modified":"2021-03-02T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:51:57","slug":"australian-senator-calls-to-recognise-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29131","title":{"rendered":"Australian senator calls to recognise China\u2019s treatment of Uighurs as genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>An Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China\u2019s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed motion \u2013 placed on the Senate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Chamber_documents\/Senate_chamber_documents\/Notice_Paper\/Current_Notice_Paper\">notice paper<\/a> for 15 March \u2013 looms as a test for the major parties at a time when Australia should join the international community in taking a stand, according to the South Australian independent senator Rex Patrick.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/australian-senator-calls-to-recognise-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-as-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the NetherlandsAn Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China\u2019s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"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":[246,41,43,645,324,50,534,53,447,325,74,67,84,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coalition","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-marise-payne","category-taiwan","category-uighurs","category-united-nations","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\/29131","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29132,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29131\/revisions\/29132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}