China's ambassador to Canada has warned that Ottawa's granting of political asylum to democracy activists fleeing a national security crackdown on Hong Kong could put some 300,000 Canadians in the city at risk. "We strongly urge the Canadian side not [to] grant so-called political asylum to those violent criminals in Hong Kong," envoy Cong Peiwu told a video news conference marking the 50th anniversary of ties with Canada.
Cong said the granting of asylum constituted interference in China's internal affairs, and would "embolden those violent criminals. If the Canadian side really cares about the stability and the prosperity in Hong Kong, and really cares about the good health and safety of those 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong ... you should support ... efforts to fight violent crimes," Cong said.
His comments came as more than 60 MPs and senators signed a joint statement calling on the Canadian prime minister to create a safe haven for Hong Kong residents by offering them permanent residency. Some half a million Canadians have already emigrated to the country from the city. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/warns-10162020093427.html
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10-12-20 “Abdurehim Gheni’s older brother Ablikim Gheni was sentenced for 5 years and 6 months in August 2017, Ablikim Gheni’s oldest daughter Patima was sentenced for 6.5 years in March 2019, and Abdurehim Gheni’s youngest older brother Mijit Gheni was sentenced to 16.5 years in May 2018,” reads the letter, written in Chinese. “Abdurehim Gheni’s wife’s older brother Turghun Hamit was sentenced to 16 years and six months for ethnic separatism in May 2019, and her younger older brother Adil Hamit was sentenced to three years.”
Gheni said: “Being Uyghur is itself a crime now ... They were just normal people who harbored no anti-China political sentiments.” He said he believes that his older brothers, who are teachers, were detained and later sentenced simply for being Uyghurs who were proud of theirheritage. “I’m just one typical example of Uyghurs [and what we’re going through],” he said, noting that authorities in the XUAR are believed to have detained an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in a vast network of internment camps amid a three-year campaign of extrajudicial incarceration in the region. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/jailed-10122020121624.html
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