Conservative Party MPs Nusrat Ghani (C) and Iain Duncan Smith (R) join members of the Uyghur community in London on 22 April 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

 

The British Parliament on Thursday passed a motion saying it believes “that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xianjiang Uyghur Autonomous region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide.”

The non-binding motion further calls on the UK government “to fulfil its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and all relevant instruments of international law to bring it to an end.”