US-based Uyghur rights activist Rushan Abbas rose to prominence in 2019 when her sister disappeared in Xinjiang province. From then on, it redoubled its efforts and was newly established Campaign for Uyghurs gathered efforts from thousands of people to name the plight of the Uyghurs in China as they tried to find out where his sister was.
Its history, as well as that of the oppression of the ethnic minority, has been portrayed in looking for my sister, a documentary directed by Jawad Mir, a Pakistani-born filmmaker from Canada. Next Monday, at 3.30 pm, both will be in Lisbon, at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University, for the screening of the film and available to answer questions from the public, such as World Congress leader Uygur Abdulhakim Idris.
Abbas’s role was crucial in making Americans aware of the existence of Beijing’s policies toward his people, which some classify as genocidal, and which include the establishment of concentration camps (the regime calls them reeducation camps), in which the Uyghurs suffer all kinds of abuse.
Rushan Abbas was heard more than once in the US Congress, which passed the Forced Labor Prevention Act, which bans the import of products from that Chinese region.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet resigned from her position earlier this month with the publication of a report condemning China for “serious human rights violations in the context of the implementation of counter-terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies” by the government. other Muslim minorities and said she was subject to “enormous pressure” not to release the report.
Source: DN
