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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Rocky Swift

Uyghur leader urges Japan to join call for UN debate on alleged abuses in China

Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, attends a news conference with other leaders of the Chinese ethnic minority group at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Japan needs to do more than make an "empty promise" to stop human rights abuses in China, the leader of the largest ethnic Uyghur group in exile said in Tokyo on Friday.

Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, said he had come to Japan to meet members of parliament and urge the government to press for a debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council on China's treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims.

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