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Full Uyghur Tribunal Judgment Published
The Uyghur Tribunal has released its full Judgment - some 347 pages - setting out its comprehensive findings of genocide in Xinjiang against Uyghur Muslims, now complete with appendices.
The Uyghur Tribunal Delivers Its Judgment
The Uyghur Tribunal, having reviewed evidenced since September 2020, reaches a judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC.
International Criminal Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against the Uyghur Population in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
The Essex Court Chambers was instructed by the Global Legal Action Network, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project to provide a written Opinion on the characterisation, under international criminal law, of acts carried out by the Chinese government in respect of the Uyghur people living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“XUAR”) in China. This Opinion addresses the potential substantive liability of certain individuals, under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“Rome Statute”) and the applicability of the United Kingdom’s “Magnitsky sanctions” regime to those individuals.