{"id":67392,"date":"2024-10-22T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/uyghur-activist-accuses-labour-of-failing-to-stand-up-to-china"},"modified":"2024-10-22T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:00:41","slug":"uyghur-activist-accuses-labour-of-failing-to-stand-up-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67392","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur activist accuses Labour of failing to stand up to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahima Mahmut, in exile in the UK, \u2018disappointed\u2019 at failure to describe Beijing\u2019s crackdown on minority as genocide<\/p>\n<p>A leading Uyghur activist has accused the Labour government of \u201cfalling behind\u201d its allies in failing to stand up to China, after ministers backtracked on plans to push for formal recognition of the country\u2019s treatment of the minority group as genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after David Lammy\u2019s first visit to China as UK foreign secretary, the human rights activist Rahima Mahmut, who has lived in exile in the UK since 2000, said she had hoped there would be a shift in UK policy once the party came into power, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/19\/mike-pompeo-china-uighur-genocide-sanctions-xinjiang\">following the US<\/a> in declaring a continuing genocide in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/uyghur-activist-accuses-labour-of-failing-to-stand-up-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahima Mahmut, in exile in the UK, \u2018disappointed\u2019 at failure to describe Beijing\u2019s crackdown on minority as genocideA leading Uyghur activist has accused the Labour government of \u201cfalling behind\u201d its allies in failing to stand up to China, after minist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"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":[41,50,319,53,4,52,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-human-rights","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\/67392","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\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392\/revisions\/67393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}