{"id":7953,"date":"2008-12-07T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:26:39","slug":"human-rights-in-china-conference-at-the-eu-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/12\/07\/human-rights-in-china-conference-at-the-eu-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA \u2013 CONFERENCE AT THE EU PARLIAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 2nd<\/sup> December 2008, <\/span>Human Rights Without Frontiers (Mr Willy Fautr\u00e9), the ALDE and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy organized a conference on Human Rights in China at the EU Parliament.
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Mr. Dokun Isa<\/span>,<\/strong> Secretary General of World Uygur Congress <\/strong>spoke about Uygur Human Rights <\/strong>issue.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Willy Fautr\u00e9 of HRWF, Mr. Dokun Isa of WUC
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UNPO representatives and ITF Representative attending the conference<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Zhang Chongzhi, Mr. Dokun Issa, Secretary General of WUC and<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Hassan Aydinli, ITF Europe Representative<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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An assessment of China\u2019s human rights record<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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*Human Rights Defenders *Freedom of Expression *Freedom of Religion or Belief *Tibet Issues *Uyghur Issues *Religious minority Falun Gong *One-child policy *Labour rights *Housing rights and land rights *Environmental rights *Arbitrary detention *Re-education through forced labor *Death Penalty *North Korean Refugees in China<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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by over a dozen of NGOs<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale des Droits de l\u2019Homme, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int\u2019l, Solidarit\u00e9 Chine, China Aid, Friends of Tibet, World Uyghur Congress, CIPFG, Database Center for NK Human Rights, etc.<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Members of the EU Parliament attending the meeting: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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MEP Istvan Szent-Ivanyi<\/strong>, vice-chairman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with the Korean Peninsula<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

MEP Marco Cappato<\/strong>, author of the last human rights report of the European Parliament<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

MEP Helga Tr\u00fcpel<\/strong>, member of the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with China<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

MEP Graham Watson<\/strong>, president of ALDE political group<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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MEP Edward McMillan-Scott<\/strong>, vice-president of the European Parliament.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some\u00a0points mentioned in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Mr. Dokun Isa’s <\/strong>speech:
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<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>East Turkestan<\/span>, also known as Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been military controlled by Communist China since 1949. The territorial size is 1,818.000 square kilometres (5 times the size of Germany).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At present the fundamental individual human rights and the freedoms of the Uyghurs including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights continue to be violated. With the steady flow of Chinese settlers into East Turkestan, the Uygurs are faced with the dangerof becoming a small minority in their own country and thereby losing their cultural identity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Uygurs in East Turkestan face human rights abuses including arbitrary detention <\/span>and imprisonment, religious repression, economic and educational discrimination, and the steady eradication of the Uyghur language and culture from public life, and the forced sterilization on Uyghur women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

240.000 young Uygur women have been transferred to China by the Chinese authorities and more than 700 Uygur women have been arrested.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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