Uighur group calls on ICC to arrest Chinese President Xi Jinping after receiving Putin’s warrant
A group representing the Uyghur people calls on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping after the court issued an arrest warrant Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We call on the International Criminal Court to take action and hold Chinese leader Xi Jinping accountable for the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples,” exiled East Turkestan Prime Minister Salih Khudayar said. Saturday press release.
“The International Criminal Court must uphold justice and fulfill its Never Again pledge by investigating the ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct role in this Holocaust-like genocide in the 21st century.”
The press release echoes what government officials around the world and pro-Uyghur activists have been saying for years regarding China’s “ongoing campaign of mass internment, forced labor, forced sterilization and forced family separation against Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkestan, which is officially recognized as genocide by the US government and the parliaments of almost a dozen Western countries from 2021.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)
The press release comes out the same week that the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Russian official Maria Alekseevna Lvova-Belova for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.
The ICC stated that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of the population (children) and illegal transfer of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
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China’s discriminatory detentions of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang could constitute crimes against humanity, the UN Human Rights Office said in 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schifelbein, file)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Press Secretary Maria Zakharova dismissed the arrest warrant shortly after it was issued.
“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and is not bound by it,” Zakharova said. “Russia does not cooperate with this body, and possible “recipes” for arrest coming from the International Court of Justice will be legally invalid for us.”
A press release from expelled Uyghurs made similar allegations of the forced deportation of ethnic Turks.
Ethnic Uighurs pray at a mosque in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Reuters/Nir Elias)
“In June 2021, lawyers representing ETGE and ETNM presented further evidence to the ICC that the Chinese government has a policy of detaining Uyghurs and other ethnic Turks from outside China, including ICC member states such as neighboring Tajikistan, and forcibly deporting them back to East Turkestan (“Xinjiang”), where they are subjected to acts of genocide and crimes against humanity,” the press release says.
“New evidence has shown that more than 3,000 Uyghurs were forcibly deported from Tajikistan, and another 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan.”
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In addition, the press release states that more than 3 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic peoples have been placed in internment camps and that more than 880,500 Uighur and other Turkic children were forcibly separated from their families.
Fox News Digital reached out to US Consulate in China and ICC for comment, but received no immediate response.
“The ICC is currently reviewing all the evidence we have presented to decide whether to open an ICC investigation,” Khudayar said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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“We are contacting the prosecutor’s office about the evidence presented and asking the prosecutor to act without delay in order to open an ICC investigation and bring those responsible to justice.”
Xi plans fly to Russia to meet with Putin next week for a meeting where the Kremlin says the two leaders will discuss “further development of the all-round partnership and strategic engagement between Russia and China.”