EVIDENCE

Exposing atrocities in the Uyghur Region has been an ongoing challenge, given the Chinese government’s extensive security apparatus and an ubiquitous system of digital surveillance that detects and makes criminal any leaked information or even a conversation with a family member outside of China. Despite the government’s draconian measures to “maintain stability” through oppressive control, the world has gained some understanding of what is happening through leaked government documents, satellite imagery, and personal testimony.

These three sources were brought together by the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent body chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević, former President of Serbia, at the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The Tribunal convened in London in 2021 to examine claims of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity reportedly committed against the Uyghur people by the Chinese government. The Tribunal had no legal authority, but its findings credibly contradict the Chinese government’s official claims that the mass internment facilities are "professional training facilities" served to “fight poverty” and eliminate “the three evils” of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism.”

“Beyond reasonable doubt the People’s Republic of China committed torture and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and, by the imposition of measures to prevent births intended to destroy a significant part of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as such,  committed genocide.”

Uyghur Tribunal’s Judgement
December 9, 2021