Siobhain McDonagh MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 020 7219 4678 (tel) His Excellency Ambassador Liu Xiaoming Embassy of China 49 Portland Place London W1B 1JL 08 September 2020 Your Excellency, RE: Oppression of the Uighur people We are writing to express our extreme concern at the treatment of the Uighur people in Xinjiang. We understand that approximately one million people have been detained and held in detention camps. Those who have escaped give horrifying testimony of religious persecution, physical abuse and torture. Sickening footage was shown to you on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show in July of a large number of people blindfolded, kneeling and shaven, waiting to be loaded on to trains. The similarities between this video and historical footage of Nazi concentration camps are truly chilling. Your interview followed further shocking accusations that the Chinese Government is actively pursuing a policy to reduce the Uighur population with Uighur women facing forced sterilisation, forced abortion and the forced removal of their wombs. It has even been reported that birth rates have fallen by 60% in some Uighur areas. The Chinese Government’s actions must be stated for what they are: a systematic and calculated programme of ethnic cleansing against the Uighur people. When the world is presented with such overwhelming evidence of gross human rights abuses, nobody can turn a blind eye. We as Parliamentarians in the United Kingdom write to express our absolute condemnation of this oppression and call for it to end immediately. Yours sincerely, Siobhain McDonagh MP Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden Co-signed: Tahir Ali MP Dr Rupa Huq MP Rushanara Ali MP Christine Jardine MP Apsana Begum MP Kim Johnson MP Steven Bonnar MP Dame Diana Johnson MP Sir Peter Bottomley MP Alicia Kearns MP Angus Brendan MacNeil MP Barbara Keeley MP Kevin Brennan MP Ben Lake MP Alan Brown MP Clive Lewis MP Ian Byrne MP David Linden MP Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP Caroline Lucas MP Sarah Champion MP Stewart McDonald MP Joanna Cherry QC MP Stuart McDonald MP Rosie Cooper MP Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP Daisy Cooper MP Catherine McKinnell MP Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP Carol Monaghan MP Stella Creasy MP Layla Moran MP Jon Cruddas MP Gavin Newlands MP John Cryer MP Brendan O'Hara MP Rt Hon Sir Edward Davey MP Kate Osamor MP Martin Docherty-Hughes MP Kate Osborne MP Allan Dorans MP Dr Dan Poulter MP Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP Gavin Robinson MP Colum Eastwood MP Andrew Rosindell MP Clive Efford MP Jim Shannon MP Julie Elliott MP Virendra Sharma MP Stephen Farry MP Rt Hon Alec Shelbrooke MP Rt Hon Sir Roger Gale MP Tommy Sheppard MP Nusrat Ghani MP Jamie Stone MP Patricia Gibson MP Graham Stringer MP Patrick Grady MP Rt Hon Sir Desmond Swayne MP Neil Gray MP Sam Tarry MP Lilian Greenwood MP Alison Thewliss MP Claire Hanna MP Owen Thompson MP Neale Hanvey MP Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP Tom Tugendhat MP Wera Hobhouse MP Derek Twigg MP Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge MP Dr Philippa Whitford MP Sharon Hodgson MP Mohammad Yasin MP Rt Hon Sir George Howarth MP Siobhain McDonagh MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 020 7219 4678 (tel) Lord Alderdice Baroness Jolly Lord Alton of Liverpool Lord Jones of Cheltenham Rt Hon Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom Lord Judd Lord Balfe Baroness Kennedy of Cradley Rt Hon Baroness Blackstone Lord Lexden OBE Rt Rev Lord Bishop of St Albans Baroness Lister of Burtersett CBE Lord Bowness CBE DL Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate OBE Rt Hon Lord Browne of Ladyton Lord McKenzie of Luton Baroness Burt of Solihull Lord McInnes of Kilwinning CBE Baroness Cox Lord Oates Baroness Crawley Baroness O'Loan DBE Lord Curry of Kirkharle CBE Lord Palmer of Childs Hall OBE General Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL Rt Hon Lord Pendry Baroness Deech DBE QC Lord Polak CBE Rt Hon Lord Dholakia OBE DL Rt Hon Baroness Prashar CBE Lord Dubs Rt Hon Baroness Quin The Earl of Sandwich Lord Rennard MBE Baroness Eaton DBE DL Rt Hon Lord Rooker Rt Hon Lord Hain Lord Sharkey Rt Hon Lord Hamilton of Epsom Lord Sheikh Baroness Harris of Richmond DL Lord Shinkwin Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE Lord Haworth Baroness Smith of Newnham Rt Hon Baroness Hayman GBE Lord St John of Blesto Baroness Hollins Lord Suri Baroness Hooper CMG Baroness Suttie Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE Lord Tope CBE Lord Hylton Lord Turnberg Rt Hon Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC .