, in a fresh attack against Beijing.
MEPs said tools used so far by the EU have not led to tangible progress in China's human rights record which they said had worsened in the past year, in a resolution adopted Thursday."MEPs call on the Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets, if deemed appropriate and effective, against the Chinese officials responsible for severe repression of basic rights in Xinjiang," the European Parliament said in a statement.
" urge the Chinese government to immediately end the practice of arbitrary detentions without any charge, trial or conviction for criminal offence and to immediately and unconditionally release all detained persons, including this year’s laureate of the Sakharov Prize, Ilham Tohti," it added. China has faced growing international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in a network of internment camps.
Beijing initially denied the existence of the camps, but now says they are"vocational training centres" necessary to combat terrorism.
This so hypocritical of Europe Union. Thousands of Immigrants in Europe getting treated inhumanely every single day. I think E. U should look what them doing before attacking other nations.
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