{"id":30937,"date":"2021-04-15T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/uyghur-commons-vote-all-party-motion-declaration-genocide-xinjiang-china"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:00:43","slug":"commons-to-vote-on-declaration-of-genocide-in-xinjiang-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30937","title":{"rendered":"Commons to vote on declaration of genocide in Xinjiang province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers seek backing of two-thirds of MPs for all-party motion citing China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs<\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons is to be given a chance to vote to declare that a genocide is under way in Xinjiang province in China, in a move likely to damage Sino-British relations.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers hope that at least two-thirds of MPs will vote on 22 April to back the all-party motion in a declaration of intent against China for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-breaches-un-genocide-convention-finds-landmark-report\">treatment of the Uyghur Muslims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/uyghur-commons-vote-all-party-motion-declaration-genocide-xinjiang-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers seek backing of two-thirds of MPs for all-party motion citing China\u2019s treatment of UyghursThe House of Commons is to be given a chance to vote to declare that a genocide is under way in Xinjiang province in China, in a move likely to damage &#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":[41,531,50,319,447,4,52,84,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-islam","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","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\/30937","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=30937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions\/30938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}