On Thursday 10 October, the European Parliament adopted, by 540 votes to 23 with 47 abstentions, a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew Europe and Greens/EFA groups condemning the detention of prominent Uyghurs in China, including economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti (see EUROPE B13488A16) and Gulshan Abbas, a retired doctor from the Xinjiang Oil Field Company Ming Yuan Workers Hospital.
In this resolution, the European Parliament calls for the immediate and...