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Thursday, August 6, 2020

MPs urge Home Office to grant refugee status to all Uighurs arriving in UK

Letter to home secretary points out growing evidence of genocide against Uighur people in China

A cross-party group of MPs and peers, including a former chair of the Conservative party, have written to the home secretary demanding that Uighur people fleeing China and seeking asylum in the UK are automatically granted refugee status.

Abuse and mistreatment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in north-west China has been extensively documented but strenuously denied by Beijing, which claims its policies are to counter terrorism.

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