Uyghur group calls on ICC to arrest Chinese president Xi Jinping after Putin warrant

A group representing nan Uyghur group is calling connected nan International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping aft nan tribunal issued an apprehension warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

"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 Government successful Exile said successful a Saturday property release.

"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."

The property merchandise echoes what authorities officials crossed nan globe and pro-Uyghur activists person claimed for years regarding China’s "ongoing run of wide internment, forced labor, forced sterilization, and forced family separation against Turkic taste groups successful East Turkistan, which has been officially designated arsenic genocide by nan U.S. authorities and nan Parliaments of astir a twelve occidental nations since 2021."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands pinch his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping astatine nan Kremlin successful Moscow, Russia (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)

The property merchandise comes nan aforesaid week nan ICC issued an apprehension warrant for Putin and Russian charismatic Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for their alleged engagement successful warfare crimes during nan penetration of Ukraine.

The ICC said that Putin "is allegedly responsible for nan warfare crime of unlawful deportation of organization (children) and that of unlawful transportation of organization (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to nan Russian Federation."

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China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and different mostly Muslim taste groups successful nan occidental region of Xinjiang whitethorn represent crimes against humanity, nan U.N. quality authorities agency said successful 2022 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed nan apprehension warrant soon aft it was issued.

"Russia is not a statement to nan Rome Statute of nan International Criminal Court and does not carnivore obligations nether it," Zakharova said. "Russia does not cooperate pinch this body, and imaginable 'recipes' for apprehension coming from nan International Court of Justice will beryllium legally null and void for us."

The property merchandise from nan exiled Uyghurs outlines akin allegations of forced deportations of ethnically Turkic people.

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Ethnic Uighurs believe wrong a mosque successful Urumqi successful China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region.  (Reuters/Nir Elias )

"In June 2021, lawyers representing nan ETGE and ETNM submitted further grounds to nan ICC that nan Chinese Government is implementing a argumentation of rounding up Uyghur and different ethnically Turkic group from extracurricular China, including ICC personnel States specified arsenic neighboring Tajikistan, and forcefully deporting them backmost to East Turkistan ("Xinjiang"), wherever they are subjected to genocidal acts and crimes against humanity," nan property merchandise stated. 

"The caller grounds highlighted that upwards of 3,000 Uyghurs had been forcibly deported from Tajikistan pinch an further 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan."

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Additionally, nan property merchandise states that complete 3 cardinal Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and different Turkic group person been put successful internment camps and that complete 880,500 Uyghur and different Turkic children person been forcibly separated from their families.

Fox News Digital reached retired to China's U.S. Consulate and nan ICC for remark but did not instantly person a response.

"The ICC is presently considering each of nan grounds we person submitted successful bid to determine connected opening an ICC investigation," Hudayar told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

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"We are successful interaction pinch nan Office of nan Prosecutor astir nan grounds submitted and are requesting that nan Prosecutor should enactment without hold to commencement an ICC investigation and clasp those responsible to account."

Xi is scheduled to fly to Russia adjacent week to meet pinch Putin for a gathering wherever nan Kremlin says nan 2 leaders will talk "issues of further improvement of broad business and strategical relationship betwixt Russia and China."