Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib issued a name to the worldwide group to "work towards ending" the alleged human rights abuses of Uyghurs in China throughout an episode of Newsweek's "The Diplomat" podcast launched earlier this week.
Talking with podcast host Jason Greenblatt, the White Home envoy to the Center East throughout former President Donald Trump's administration, Hřib touched upon his considerations for the Uyghur individuals because the world's focus was deciding on Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympic Video games, which start in Beijing on Friday. Human rights considerations in China's Xinjiang area prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to resolve late final 12 months that his administration wouldn't ship diplomatic illustration to the Video games.
Allegations of human rights violations in China, together with imprisonment and compelled labor of members of the Uyghur group, raised considerations amongst unbiased human rights consultants with the United Nations, who mentioned final 12 months that the allegations would, if discovered to be true, "represent grave human rights abuses." A report launched final June by Amnesty Worldwide estimated a whole bunch of 1000's of Uyghurs, most of whom are Muslims, had been allegedly "arbitrarily detained" in Xinjiang.
China has denied all human rights abuse allegations, calling them "an entire lie" and "political video games that ignore info and have hidden motives."
The Czech Republic's capital metropolis as soon as had "sister metropolis" agreements with Shanghai and Beijing, partnerships historically arrange so exchanges in commerce, tradition, schooling and extra will be formalized. Prague's strengthening relationship with Taiwan in recent times was thought-about by China to be a violation of the "one China" coverage included inside these sister agreements, Hřib defined on the podcast, prompting each Shanghai and Beijing to cancel their agreements with Prague.
The World Uyghur Congress, which advocates on behalf of Uyghurs across the globe, held its seventh Common Meeting in November in Prague, the place Hřib has served as the town's mayor since late 2018. Hřib attended the convention, which was condemned by a spokesperson for the Chinese language Embassy within the Czech Republic.
On the primary day of the Congress' assembly final November, the embassy launched a press release wherein it alleged the group was an "anti-Chinese language separatist group that has lengthy been fabricating slander and sin towards Xinjiang," in addition to "spreading non secular extremism" and "inciting terrorist and separatist actions."
Hřib addressed the feedback whereas on the November assembly.
"I hear that China is sad about this convention being held right here in Prague," Hřib mentioned in a press release shared on-line by the World Uyghur Congress. "Nicely, I'm sad there is a nation in 2021 that has focus camps."
Throughout his dialog with Greenblatt, Hřib mentioned he spoke on the convention "primarily concerning the necessity to talk up towards violations of human rights in China," along with his ideas on China's financial affect in Central and Jap Europe, which he mentioned "may be very, very overrated."
"After that convention, I had the privilege to fulfill Uyghur survivors from the Xinjiang focus camps," Hřib instructed Greenblatt. "And I used to be horrified to listen to what that they had skilled."
Hřib then put out a name to anybody who could be listening around the globe.
"I wish to use this chance to name on the worldwide group to work in the direction of ending these focus camps, the compelled labor, the Uyghur genocide, and compelled organ harvesting," he mentioned.
Hřib went on to say the alleged human rights violations "haven't any place in civilized society," nor, he added, does the act of "turning a blind eye to those atrocities."
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