The European Parliament has approved a resolution that follows a step the US took this summer to call for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for the persecution of Uighurs and a ban on imports made with forced labor. Britain’s House of Lords has also passed legislation that gives UK judges the power to declare whether there’s evidence of genocide in another country and revoke a trade agreement. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, those are just two of several recent developments that suggest 2021 may see a breakthrough in the Uighur struggle.
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