U.S. Rep. McGovern: ‘We Stand in Solidarity With the Uyghur People’
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern made the remarks in an interview with the Uyghur News Network during an event hosted by the New Lines Institute in Washington on January 7, marking the launch of the Institute’s Transnational Repression Working Group.
To the Uyghur People, We Stand Solidarity with You” said the U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern. — Uyghur News Network
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern made the remarks in an interview with the Uyghur News Network during an event hosted by the New Lines Institute in Washington on January 7, marking the launch of the Institute’s Transnational Repression Working Group.
The event brought together U.S. lawmakers, policy experts, human rights advocates, and representatives of affected diaspora communities to highlight the growing use of intimidation, surveillance, and coercion by authoritarian governments against dissidents living abroad, including Uyghurs.
Thirty-seven years after the massacre, activists, analysts and lawmakers argue that engagement without accountability helped empower the Chinese Communist Party
WASHINGTON (UNN) — A coalition of 15 countries expressed “deep concern” at the United Nations on Friday over ongoing human rights abuses in China, particularly those targeting Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious groups.
