LONDON, July 19 — British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said today it was clear the Uighur minority in China had suffered abuses of their human rights. 'It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on, which is why in Geneva at the UN we raised this with 27 partners ......
Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it was clear human rights abuses were going on in China. — Reuters pic
LONDON, July 19 — British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said today it was clear the Uighur minority in China had suffered abuses of their human rights. "It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on, which is why in Geneva at the UN we raised this with 27 partners ... to call out the government of China for its human rights abuses of the Uighurs, also of Hong Kong," Raab told the BBC'sBeijing's ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming told the same programme that most Uighurs were living happily and that ethnic minorities in China were treated as equals.
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