Wang Dingyu (middle) pointed out that for the first time, the Legislative Yuan passed a cross-party proposal resolution requesting the government to study and sanction the CCP’s persecution of Uyghurs, but two political parties did not co-sign.

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[Reporter Chen Zhengyu/Taipei Report] The CCP’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang has attracted much attention. Wang Dingyu, Lin Changzuo, Wang Wanyu and other cross-party legislators made a proposal this week, asking the government to discuss cooperation with other democratic countries and impose sanctions on the CCP .

Wang Dingyu, chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Legislative Yuan, said yesterday that this is the first time the Legislative Yuan has passed a cross-party resolution, but two political parties (KMT and People's Party) did not sign it.

The Human Rights Committee of the Legislative Yuan held a book launch event for "A Place Where You Go and Never Return: A Uyghur Girl's Real Experience in an Education Camp" in Xinjiang.

Wang Dingyu lamented in his speech that we never know how much human rights work we need to do to improve human rights in China, and we also don’t know when an article, a press conference, or a resolution will have an impact on human rights issues in China, “But you can’t stop Work hard and never stop pursuing, because what is right is right, and what is evil is evil.”

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Fan Yun, vice chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Legislative Yuan and a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, said that as a country living under the shadow of Chinese authoritarianism, Taiwan pays too little attention to Uyghur human rights issues. As a member of the international democratic camp, Taiwanese should at least support Voiceless Uyghurs convey that racial persecution is happening.

Times Power Legislator Qiu Xianzhi mentioned that German Xinjiang expert Adrian Zenz once pointed out that Xinjiang implements large-scale "forced birth control" and detains women who do not want to wear IUDs in "re-education camps" for threats and punishment. The practice is in line with the United Nations definition of population extermination.

Lin Changzuo, chairman of the Uyghur Connection in the Taiwan Congress and a non-party legislator, expressed through the video that he hopes to strengthen Taiwan's sanctions against forced labor and other related products through legislation on the institutional level, to put more pressure on the Chinese government and the dictatorship, and to improve the problem. , or provide more support for the Uyghurs.

The United Nations released a report at the end of August this year, pointing out that the Chinese government has seriously violated human rights in Xinjiang, which may constitute a crime against humanity; the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said a few days ago that he will take follow-up actions on the report previously released by the United Nations .

On the 27th, the Legislative Yuan of our country passed a resolution proposed by 15 legislators including Wang Dingyu, Lin Changzuo, Wang Wanyu, and Chen Tingfei.

The resolution requires that the Executive Yuan should continue to pay attention to the human rights violations of the Uyghurs and express condolences to the persecuted Uyghurs. It should also promptly discuss how to cooperate with other democratic countries and impose corresponding sanctions on the Chinese government.