Raphaël Glucksmann calls on Emmanuel Macron to “bring the cause of the Uyghurs to Brussels”

Published on : 02/10/2021 – 15:05

The essayist and MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, who participates on Saturday in a demonstration in support of the Uyghurs in Paris, Place de la Bastille, called on France 24, the President of the Republic to “defend the cause of the Uyghurs” with its European partners.

The Uyghur Institute of Europe is organizing, Saturday, October 2, in Paris, a large demonstration “against the genocide” of the Uyghurs by China in Xinjiang. Among the supporters of this minority, predominantly Muslim, persecuted by Beijing, MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, on France 24, called on the European Union to ban on its soil “products resulting from the slavery of the Uyghurs “and to sanction those responsible for the” deportation of a whole people “.

The French politician asks Parliament to recognize the risk of a “genocide” perpetrated by the Chinese authorities and calls on Emmanuel Macron to “bring the cause of the Uyghurs to Brussels”.

According to Amnesty International, a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are held in prison camps and subjected to rape, torture and forced labor.

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