Uyghur group calls on ICC to arrest Chinese president Xi Jinping after Putin warrant

A group representing the Uyghur people is asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to pursue charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping after the court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We call on the International Criminal Court to hold Chinese leader Xi Jinping accountable for the ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples and crimes against humanity,” Salih Hudayar, prime minister of the East Turkestan government-in-exile, said in a press release on Saturday. invoke.” ,

“The International Criminal Court must fulfill its commitment to ‘never again’ by investigating the ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct role in this Holocaust-like carnage in the 21st century.”

Press Release Government officials and pro-Uighur activists around the world have claimed for years about an ongoing campaign of mass internment, forced labor, forced sterilization, and forced family separation against Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkestan. which is officially done. Designated as genocide by the US government and the parliaments of nearly a dozen Western countries since 2021.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia (Reuters/Evgenia Novogenina/Pool)

Press release same week ICC issued an arrest warrant Putin and Russian officer Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.

The ICC said Putin was “allegedly responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of the population (children) and illegal transfer of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

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The United Nations Human Rights Office stated in 2022 that China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute a crime against humanity. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed the arrest warrant shortly after it was issued.

“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and does not bear obligations under it,” Zakharova said. “Russia does not cooperate with this body, and a potential ‘recipe’ for arrest from the International Court of Justice would be legally null and void for us.”

Press releases from deported Uighurs outline similar allegations of forced deportations of ethnically Turkic people.

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Ethnic Uighurs pray inside a mosque in Urumqi, China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Reuters/Nir Elias)

“In June 2021, attorneys representing ETGE and ETNM presented additional evidence to the ICC that the Chinese government is implementing a policy of rounding up Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic peoples outside China, including in ICC member states such as neighboring Tajikistan involved, and being forcibly deported. The press release states that they have been deported back to East Turkestan (“Xinjiang”), where they are subjected to acts of genocide and crimes against humanity.

“New evidence uncovered that more than 3,000 Uyghurs were forcibly deported from Tajikistan with an additional 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan.”

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Additionally, the press release states that more than 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic peoples are held in internment camps and more than 880,500 Uighur and other Turkish children have been forcibly separated from their families.

Fox News Digital reached out to the US Consulate in China and the ICC for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

“The ICC is currently considering all the evidence we have gathered to decide whether to launch an ICC investigation,” Hudayar said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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“We have been in contact with the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the evidence presented and are requesting that the Prosecutor take action without delay to launch an ICC investigation and hold those responsible accountable.”

Xi is due to travel to Russia next week for a meeting with Putin, where the Kremlin says the two leaders will “discuss issues of development of the comprehensive partnership and strategic dialogue between Russia and China.”