OTTAWA — The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a non\u002Dbinding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslim refugees from…
The House of Commons voted 322-0 for Liberal member of parliament Sameer Zuberi’s bill, which also called on the government to recognize that Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic Muslims who have fled to third countries face “pressure and intimidation” by China to return.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Rights groups accuse China of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers about 10 million in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labor in internment camps. China vigorously denies any abuses. Responding to a question about the proposal, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday that Xinjiang’s people live in peace and work happily, while human rights safeguards for all ethnicities in the region were continuously improving.
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