Petition · past parliament

Take action with Amnesty International to close re-education camps in China

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Re-education camps in China force Uyghur Muslims to go against their religion, eating pork and drinking alcohol; escapees described torture and beatings. Response to a petition in November 2018 stated; “We have raised it at senior Ministerial level and at the UN.” There has been no further action.
This brutality based only on a person’s religion was seen in the concentration camps of the Second World War. At the time, we didn’t know what would happen; we can no longer hide behind this excuse. The developing system bought holocaust victims time; now there is a perfectly working system to use, and it is being used. Surely, we owe it to the survivors and the victims of the Nazi regime not to forget and to do something about it when we see such atrocities emerging again.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

19 Feb 2019 Petition opened for signatures
18 Mar 2019 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 18 Mar 2019

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.