The Cordoba Foundation's Campaign for the the Uyghurs

The Cordoba Foundation’s Campaign

for the Uyghurs: A Call to Action

Dr. Mozammel Haque

The Cordoba Foundation organised a conference entitled “China’s Brute Crackdown and Mass Incarceration of Uyghur Muslims” was held at London Muslim Centre, London, on Wednesday, 13^th of February, 2019. The conference was inaugurated by Dr Anas Altikriti, the CEO and Founder of The Cordoba Foundation, President of the Muslim Association of Britain, and a leading figure in the Anti-War Movement.

The Cordoba Foundation’s CEO Dr. Anas Altikriti at the very beginning informed the audiences the Cordoba Foundation’s Campaign for the Uyghurs: A Call to Action.

The followings are TCF’s Campaign for the Uyghurs: A Call to Action:

Making presentation to the Government

-          * Briefing the government on the status of the Uyghur and what ought to be done

-          * Demanding that the British government address its Chinese counterpart over this issue

-          * Demanding that the FCO express its condemnation of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs to the China’s Ambassador in London

-          * Lobbying MPs to express their condemnation of China’s oppression of the Uyghurs

-          * Raising questions in Parliament over this issue

-          * Approaching the APPG on China over this issue

-          * Approaching the APPG on Human Rights over this issue

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Legal Campaign

-          * Pursue legal avenues to prosecute those perpetrators, illegal detentions and incarceration of Uyghur Muslims

Raising awareness on the Uyghur case

·         Holding conferences across the country addressing the oppression of the Uyghurs

·         * Briefing journalists and bloggerson China’s treatment of the Uyghurs

Direct Support

·         Connecting with the Uyghur community in the UK and across Europe to access direct and second hand testimonies of developments

·         Investigating channels through which aid and support to the Uyghurs can be provided