Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  China is pressuring Uighurs directly, especially when those who are abroad have relatives back home, which makes them more liable to manipulation. One of the mechanisms China has used is refusing to issue new passports, so when passports expire, it tells these Uighurs to return

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry, your first question was about what goes on inside the re-education camps?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I was just wondering if these are two distinct questions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. There have been various degrees and types of discontent among Uighurs on the ground in China over the course of history. There was a particular incident in the 1990s in a particular area of Xinjiang, which was related to access to religious freedom. After the Cultural Revo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I have mainly focused on researching official government documents, but also have had statements from informants. I myself have not been able to ascertain evidence on organ harvesting. I have also not particularly attempted to research it. I therefore cannot really comment on tha

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Muslim governments have been surprisingly silent on the matter—various sources have speculated as to the reasons, which are probably complex—with the exception of the Malaysian government, which also moved to criticize the belt and road initiative and has been a lot more forthcom

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The so-called re-education, if I may start out, is inherently an extrajudicial procedure. It's an administrative detention determined by public security authorities without the involvement of the courts. There are no court proceedings and also no ways to appeal or to even know wh

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My suggestion is to really come on board with other governments, to try to make joint statements with other governments, because I see that as much more effective than unilateral action. Although Canada by itself taking steps is of course also necessary and helpful, I highly reco

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The ultimate goal is not to literally destroy, kill or eliminate an ethnic minority. In China, both in past centuries and in the present—the 20th century, the modern Chinese state, nowadays since 1949 the Communist Party—there has been a very consistent self-portrayal of China as

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think there's great concern that China is creating a real precedent. Of course, we know that all of China has significantly stepped up the persecution of religion, especially in 2018 with the new laws on religion. China is very likely to learn from the methods in Xinjiang how f

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Firstly, I would like to thank the chair and the Subcommittee on International Human Rights for inviting me to testify. The research performed by others and myself conclusively shows the existence of a large-scale extrajudicial detention network for the purpose of subjecting Xin