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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9968

3 September 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china
Heidi Hautala supports call for international independent investigation into situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

Brussels, 02/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - The president of the sub-committee on human rights of the European Parliament, Heidi Hautala of Finland (Greens), who met the president of the World Uyghur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer, on Tuesday 1 September, has called on the EU and the international community to carry out an investigation under the aegis of the UN into the situation of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, following bloody riots which broke out in the capital of Urumqi at the beginning of July....

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