MEPs Jointly Urge ICC to Investigate CCP’s Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

According to media reports on September 15th, a letter, which was jointly signed by 38 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), was sent to International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan KC, urging him to investigate the genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime against Uyghurs and other Turkic people.

The letter was submitted after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet’s Assessment report on human rights concerns in Xinjiang, Communist China, which was released 13 minutes before the end of her tenure. Besides adopting the evidence in Bachelet’s report, the letter also adds detailed information about an initial Article 15 Complaint, submitted to the ICC office of the prosecutor by representatives of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, the East Turkestan National Awakening Movement, and all Uyghur victims in July 2020.

The letter also explicitly states that the CCP regime physically or mentally coerced at least 90% of Uyghurs living in Tajikistan back to Communist China. Once they returned, the Uyghurs would disappear from the public and be subject to horrible and cruel mistreatment, including harsh interrogations, torture, forced labor, and forced medical procedures.