{"id":67574,"date":"2024-10-31T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/30\/we-are-in-despair-at-the-labour-partys-u-turn-on-uyghur-genocide-ruling"},"modified":"2024-10-31T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:16:07","slug":"we-are-in-despair-at-the-labour-partys-u-turn-on-uyghur-genocide-ruling-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67574","title":{"rendered":"We are in despair at the Labour party\u2019s U-turn on Uyghur genocide ruling | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Gillian Hughes, Dr Charlotte Burck, Dr Julia Nelki and Julia Granville <\/strong>the on the Uyghur Tribunal and David Lammy\u2019s visit to China<\/p>\n<p>We were deeply disturbed to read your report about David Lammy\u2019s visit to China that highlighted how our Labour government \u2013 headed by a human rights lawyer \u2013 has decided to backtrack on plans for formal recognition of acts of genocide in order to facilitate trade deals with China (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/17\/labour-backtracks-genocide-ruling-china-uyghurs-lammy-visit\">Labour backtracks on push for genocide ruling on China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs, 17 October<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For six days in 2021 we attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/uyghurtribunal.com\/statements\/\">Uyghur Tribunal<\/a>, during which numerous shocking testimonies were presented. We had been asked to provide psychological support to those giving evidence, in recognition of the emotional demands of participation. The courage of those who took part was breathtaking \u2013 many spoke of the risk to their lives and to their family members\u2019 lives in participating. We heard accounts of forcible sterilisation, imprisonment and sadistic torture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/30\/we-are-in-despair-at-the-labour-partys-u-turn-on-uyghur-genocide-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Gillian Hughes, Dr Charlotte Burck, Dr Julia Nelki and Julia Granville the on the Uyghur Tribunal and David Lammy\u2019s visit to ChinaWe were deeply disturbed to read your report about David Lammy\u2019s visit to China that highlighted how our Labour governm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,50,2675,319,447,902,4,371,52,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-david-lammy","category-foreign-policy","category-islam","category-labour","category-politics","category-religion","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\/67574","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67575,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67574\/revisions\/67575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}