On Thursday, 19 December MEPs urged China to close the camps and detention centres where more than one million Uyghurs are believed to be held and to release them.
In the joint resolution adopted by the S&D, ECR, Greens/EFA, Renew Europe and EPP groups on the situation of Uyghurs in China (the China Cables investigation), MEPs call for the release of all detainees “immediately and unconditionally”, including the 2019 Sakharov Prize winner Ilham Tohti (see EUROPE B12393A1), whom China has...