PRESS RELEASE: CCP Intensifies Repression as China’s National People’s Congress Begins

Posted on May 22, 2020, in "Re-Education" Camps Arbitrary Arrests Enforced Disappearances Freedom of Assembly Freedom of Expression News Other News Press Release WHAT’S NEW

Press Release – For immediate release
22 May 2020
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
+49 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]

As the CCP launches its most important political event of the year, the National People’s Congress, after a two month delay due to the pandemic, the Chinese government’s repression of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Southern Mongolians and Han Chinese democracy activists is only intensifying. The National People’s Congress ostensibly serves as the parliamentary organ of the Chinese government that votes on and passes legislation. However, it is a parliament in name only, as any meaningful form of democracy and representation in China remain completely absent from CCP governmental structures. Power instead remains in the hands of a few in the Standing Committee of the CCP and ultimately under Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rule.