[3][7][8][9] In December 2021, the tribunal concluded that the government of the People's Republic of China had committed genocide against the Uyghurs via birth control and sterilization measures.
[16][17][18] Since 2014,[19] the Chinese government, under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, has pursued policies leading to more than one million Muslims[20][21][22][23][24] (the majority of them Uyghurs) being held in secretive internment camps without any legal process[25][26] in what has become the largest-scale and most systematic detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust and World War II.
[32][33][34] In particular, critics of the Chinese government's policies have highlighted the concentration of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps,[35][36] suppression of Uyghur religious practices,[37][38] political indoctrination,[39] severe ill-treatment,[40] as well as extensive evidence[41][42][43] and other testimonials detailing human rights abuses including forced sterilization, contraception,[44][45] and abortions.
[63][64][65][66][67][68] Geoffrey Nice, the prosecutor in the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milošević, launched the Uyghur tribunal in September 2020.
"[74] On 9 December 2021, the tribunal concluded that the government of the People's Republic of China had committed genocide against the Uyghurs via birth control and sterilization measures.
[5] Luke de Pulford, the co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response, wrote in ITV News that the tribunal was of "global significance."
He wrote that, in the absence of the ability of an international court to analyze the case owing to China's veto power on the United Nations Security Council, that the tribunal would serve "to ensure the Genocide Convention does not become a meaningless document.
"[81] Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, told Radio Free Asia after the first day of hearings that "[t]he Uyghur Tribunal hearing has gone extremely well today in spite of China's disinformation campaign and diplomatic threats against tribunal, camp survivors and witnesses.