{"id":52040,"date":"2023-01-21T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/world-uyghur-congress-loses-legal-challenge-against-uk-authorities"},"modified":"2023-01-21T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:38:15","slug":"world-uyghur-congress-loses-legal-challenge-against-uk-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52040","title":{"rendered":"World Uyghur Congress loses legal challenge against UK authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from Xinjiang<\/p>\n<p>The World Uyghur Congress has said it is disappointed to have lost a legal challenge against UK authorities for not launching a criminal investigation into the importation of cotton products manufactured by forced labour in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s Xinjiang province but would continue to fight for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The WUC took the home secretary, HM Revenue and Customs and the National Crime Agency (NCA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/failure-investigate-uk-imports-linked-forced-uyghur-labour-unlawful-high-court\">to the high court<\/a>, claiming an unlawful failure or refusal to investigate imports from Xinjiang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds#:~:text=China%20has%20built%20nearly,an%20Australian%20thinktank%20has%20found.\">allegedly home to 380 internment camps<\/a> used to detain Uyghurs and people from other Muslim minorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/world-uyghur-congress-loses-legal-challenge-against-uk-authorities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from XinjiangThe World Uyghur Congress has said it is disappointed to have lost a legal challenge against UK authorities for not launching a criminal investigation into the impor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"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":[41,50,4,52,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-uyghurs","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\/52040","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\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52040\/revisions\/52041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}