Uyghurs demand Xi Jinping’s arrest after international court issues warrant for Putin

Uyghur activists connected Monday again called connected nan International Criminal Court (ICC) to analyse genocide successful China against nan taste number group and person demanded that Chinese President Xi Jinping beryllium arrested for his alleged crimes. 

The telephone came conscionable days aft nan ICC connected Friday issued an apprehension warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his domiciled successful nan forbidden deportation of Ukrainian children and forced relocation to Russia. 

China's President Xi Jinping claps arsenic he listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video nexus successful Beijing connected Dec. 2, 2019. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP/Noel Celis/Pool Photo via AP)

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Activists from nan East Turkistan authorities successful exile, which is simply a parliamentary-based exiled authorities located successful Washington, D.C., on pinch nan East Turkistan National Movement, person called connected nan ICC to clasp Xi to nan aforesaid relationship arsenic Putin.

The world tribunal has many times rejected fillings that called connected it to analyse reports of forced relocations wrong the Xinjiang province, arbitrary arrests, detentions successful attraction camps, aesculapian experimentation and various quality authorities abuses, including genocide, against nan Uyghur taste number group.

The tribunal has claimed that it does not person jurisdiction successful China to analyse nan alleged crimes arsenic Beijing is not a signatory of nan Rome Statute, which established nan tribunal successful 1998.

Chinese policemen push Uyghur women who are protesting nan detention of their relatives connected July 7, 2009, successful Urumqi, nan superior of Xinjiang province, China.

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However, previous fillings person rejected these claims and pointed to ICC investigations against abuses committed against Rohingya minorities successful Myanmar – which does not admit ICC authority – who section to Bangladesh, which is an ICC signatory.

Parallels person been drawn to Uyghur populations that person fled to ICC-friendly nations for illustration Tajikistan, which borders nan Xinjiang province, though Tajikistan has been accused of deporting Uyghurs backmost to China. 

Neither Ukraine nor Russia are authorities parties of nan Rome Statute, but according to a spokesperson for nan ICC nan tribunal was capable to spell aft Russian quality authorities abuses because Ukraine accepted its jurisdiction to analyse specified crimes.

"As a tribunal nan ICC has jurisdiction complete definite categories of crimes if they are committed connected nan territories aliases by citizens of a State that is statement to nan ICC Rome Statute aliases has accepted nan ICC jurisdiction (like Ukraine which person declared accepting nan ICC jurisdiction), which is not nan lawsuit for China, aliases upon a referral by nan United Nations Security Council," Fadi El Abdallah, a tribunal spokesperson, told Fox News Digital. 

He added that "the ICC has nary jurisdiction complete nan alleged crimes" China has been accused of. 

Genocide, if proven, is besides deemed forbidden nether world rule arsenic defined by nan U.N. charter. 

A perimeter obstruction is constructed astir what is officially known arsenic a vocational acquisition halfway successful Dabancheng successful Xinjiang province, China Sept. 4, 2018. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)

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"We telephone connected nan International Criminal Court to enactment and clasp Chinese leader Xi Jinping accountable for nan ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and different Turkic peoples," Prime Minister Salih Hudayar of nan East Turkistan authorities successful exile said successful a statement.

"The International Criminal Court must uphold justness and fulfill its committedness to ‘Never Again’ by investigating nan ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his nonstop domiciled successful this Holocaust-like genocide successful nan 21st century," he added.