Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise in the House today to present a petition highlighting the plight of Uighur Muslims in China.
Uighur Muslims are being persecuted and going through unimaginable hardships under the Communist Party of China's dictatorship, from forced sterilizations to forced abortions to birth suppression and forced organ harvesting, just to name a few. Uighur Muslims are facing genocide, as outlined in the UN convention.
I urge all parliamentarians to support this petition to recognize that Uighur Muslims are being subjected to genocide in China and also to use the Magnitsky act to sanction those committing these heinous crimes against the Uighur people and human rights violations.