Published: 31 January 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
JEWISH LEADERS URGED the community to “stand up” on Monday as they heard from an exiled activist seeking to raise attention to the plight of an estimated 1 million Chinese Muslims thought to have been detained in China’s Xinjiang region.
World Uyghur Congress president Isa Dolkun met a dozen Jewish leaders, including from synagogue movements, the human rights group Rene Cassin and the Orthodox youth movement Bnei Akiva in an event in North London hosted by the Board of Deputies.
Around one million people are believed to have been detained without trial in camps in western Xinjiang, according to human rights activists. But Chinese authorities deny any mistreatment of the Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups, saying the detention camps offer vocational training.
FULL STORY Jewish leaders call for action on China’s ‘intolerable’ treatment of Uighurs (Times of Israel)
Photo: Thousands of Muslims held a rally in front of the China Embassy-Jakarta in Indonesia last year (Donal Husni/ZUMA Wire)
