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Following Geoffrey Nice QC as he delivers the judgment of the @TribunalUyghur on #Xinjiang.
Delivery Of Uyghur Tribunal Judgment (ENGLISH)
Delivery Of Uyghur Tribunal Judgment (ENGLISH)
It is chilling, difficult and powerful to listen to this judgment.
I am not live tweeting because I want to listen to every word. The summary judgment will be available shortly on the homepage: uyghurtribunal.com. #Xinjiang
I am not live tweeting because I want to listen to every word. The summary judgment will be available shortly on the homepage: uyghurtribunal.com. #Xinjiang
A very significant finding however: PRC has implemented a deliberate, systematic & concerted policy of long-term reduction of Uyghur & other ethnic minority populations by limiting birth rates. #UyghurTribunal
.@PeterIrwin_ of @UyghurProject testifies at @TribunalUyghur about the arrest of Uyghur religious figures and intellectuals. 
@PeterIrwin_ @UyghurProject @TribunalUyghur "We spoke to 5 imams, we wanted to learn what was happening to Imams in Xj. These Imams have been going in and out of prisons back in the 90s. Eventually what was happening to these Imams was for example they will go to patriotic courses in Urumqi for 15 days."@PeterIrwin_
"They were told that their preaching has to be in line with the party policies. They were responding to restrictions in a creative way. They found ways to continue to teach children. The surveillance, control & detention of close associates have made them leave the country."
The afternoon session of @TribunalUyghur second hearing started with Rodney Dixon QC who regularly appears in all international criminal courts, including the ICC. He provided an overview of his submission to the ICC Prosecutor regarding the persecution of Uyghurs in ICC states.
@TribunalUyghur "Early indications of genocides are the number of people in thousands who disappearing & are not being heard again. It doesn’t equate to assimilation. If they were to bring people back to work in the Chinese system then we will be hearing from them again, they won’t be silenced."
"The alleged plan is to bring them back and target them as a group, regard them as terrorists, but there is no evidence of any person involved in any terrorist activities." -Rodney Dixon QC. #UyghurTribunal
‘Perfect Police State’ author @geoffrey_cain speaks of the CCP's surveillance of the entire Uyghur region, “slow, sinister erasure” of Uyghur culture, the complicity of tech firms, & how the surveillance has been embedded in the daily life of Uyghurs under the PRC #UyghurTribunal
@geoffrey_cain "what started out as a targeted campaign on counter-terrorism/anti-terrorism emerged rather like a snowball effect. People who developed technology bought into the CCP’s propaganda before they knew what it was really for." @geoffrey_cain testifies at @TribunalUyghur
"With the help of her family, one of my interviewees got out of the camp. After her release she said for at least one year she couldn't do anything & she was very traumatized. Through the process of going to a psychologist, she understood what had happened to her." @geoffrey_cain
Rukiye Turdush @parlabest speaks of the CCP's Family Planning Policies & how the family planning workers approach the Uyghur people.
"Most family planning workers are very loyal to the Chinese govt, & they assist the govt while being aware of genocidal consequences."
"Most family planning workers are very loyal to the Chinese govt, & they assist the govt while being aware of genocidal consequences."
"In 2017, Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo encouraged officials to “round up everyone
who should be rounded up.” This vague phrase appears repeatedly in internal documents
from 2017." -Rukiye Turdush @parlabest
who should be rounded up.” This vague phrase appears repeatedly in internal documents
from 2017." -Rukiye Turdush @parlabest
"Parents of Uyghur children were arrested & these kids were removed from their homes to orphanage camps & not allowed to see their parents, so they break their lineage, they were not allowed to practice their religion & culture & not allowed to speak the language." @parlabest
Doctor @MayaMitalipova who is Director of Human Stem Cell Laboratory, at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT speaks of Uyghurs, Kazakhs
& other Muslims in Xj subjected to forcefully health
check and their blood was used for DNA sequencing.
& other Muslims in Xj subjected to forcefully health
check and their blood was used for DNA sequencing.
@MayaMitalipova "For successful organ transplantation doctors rely on several important criteria including three main blood tests, cell surface tests and limited DNA tests to determine if a patient and a potential donor are a match." @MayaMitalipova @TribunalUyghur
"Next to concentration camps, there are crematoriums as reported by @RFA_UyghurNews, and there are a lot of people who are missing in the camps, this could be the result of torture or they are subjected to organ harvesting as well in my opinion." @MayaMitalipova #UyghurTribunal
Second set of hearings of the @TribunalUyghur are about to start!
We will be live-tweeting the hearings in this thread ⬇️
We will be live-tweeting the hearings in this thread ⬇️
Geoffrey Nice Qc opens the tribunal:
“For a right to be universal, it is a right that has to be enjoyed anywhere in the world. And a right always has a duty.”
“For a right to be universal, it is a right that has to be enjoyed anywhere in the world. And a right always has a duty.”
First fact witness is Australian-Uyghur @Mehray_T testifying on behalf of her husband who was arrested and detained in 2017.
““[My husband] was in shock, to be frank. Even though he was released—they said he had graduated—he never felt safe.”
““[My husband] was in shock, to be frank. Even though he was released—they said he had graduated—he never felt safe.”
eventbrite.co.uk/e/uyghur-tribu… Uyghur Tribunal: Second Hearings start tomorrow. If you're in or near London, get yourself down there.
Geoffrey Nice QC, #UyghurTribunal: "It will become apparent that genocide does not necessarily involve mass killings ... yet genocide without mass killings has not previously been dealt with to conclusion anywhere in the world ... there is no precedent":
Geoffrey Nice QC: "The law comes from legal instruments that came into being after the 2nd World War. The purpose was to prevent suffering...the unbelivable consequences of those two wars...and to prevent ever happening again the annihilations that took place in Germany, Poland."
My name is Mehray Mezensof and I am going to be giving my testimony on behalf of my husband Mirzat Taher at the second & final hearing of the Uyghur Tribunal. It commences this Friday on the 10th of September at 6:00pm (AEST). Please tune in. Do not let our voices go unheard.
#UyghurTribunal Day 4: An anonymous PRC former camp guard is giving key testimony from Germany, where he has been given asylum. He testifies that all #Uyghurs are treated as political prisoners (terrorists, enemies of the state), also that "the rules are different in #Xinjiang".
Describes torture methods designed to extract confessions: beating; inserting a pipe down the throat to fill the lungs with water [=waterboarding], insertion of electric rod into penis sheath; food deprivation and taunting of prisoners with food they were not permitted to eat etc
Torturers learned what to do by watching others administer torture. He confirms he "saw prisoners go mad or crazy" as a result of torture.
