PARIS: More than 2000 people gathered in Paris and showed the ongoing rights violations in the Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Protests organized by many Uyghur organizations including the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur European Institute.
The protest saw the participation of hundreds of young Uyghurs who had traveled from various European countries as well as public figures such as Raphael Glucksmann, member of the European Parliament (MEP) and the French actress Lucie Lucas.
The protesters marched from Bastille Square to put De Ka Republique shouting slogans ‘genocide in progress’ and ‘save the Uyghurs’ and carried banners and flags East Turkestan.
During a speech, a call is made to the international community to cancel all agreements between the EU and China and a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games 2022.
Furthermore, many speakers who denounced the involvement of multinational fashion companies like Zara, Hugo Boss and Uniqlo, which continue to buy products manufactured by Uyghur labor force.
Earlier, on the same day, the NGO ‘Sumofus’ in relation to the World Uyghur Congress, held protests outside the Zara Featured Store on the Champs-Elysees, against the source material of Chinese brand employs a Uyghur.
This protest, timed to coincide with Paris Fashion Week, is intended to attract the attention of other fashion brands to stop sourcing commodities from Xinjiang.
-Abert Khamraeva Assal, the world Uyghur Congress representative in France and co-organizer of the event ask the French government to consider stopping the import of products from the Xinjiang Uyghur produced using forced labor.
He added that the WUC expect separate from the international community to recognize the genocide of the Uyghur, who will be ‘symbolic victory’ which is also important to have an impact on the ‘economic level’.
Ibrahim Bechrouri, the campaign manager “Sumofus” warn “Sumofus” Similar protests will be held in the capital other Europe including Spain.
Some protesters determine the demands made by the movement, in particular, “the cancellation of the agreement signed between the EU and China but also the cancellation of the Olympic games in Beijing in 2022”, because “slaughter” Uyghurs.