October 4, 2021
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Ex-Justice minister under probe as corruption within CCP continues

Zhenghua earlier served as the Justice Minister before taking a post at the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)….reports Asian Lite News

Deputy Director of the Social and Legal Affairs committee, Fu Zhenghua, part of China’s top political advisory body is under investigation for disciplinary. Zhenghua is suspected of violations under the disciplines and laws of the Communist Party of China (CPC), announced China’s top anti-graft body on Saturday.

Zhenghua, an individual with such a high profile is now involved in corruption, who once used to be a ‘Star’ official in the Chinese government. This clearly indicates that the problem of corruption is deeply rooted in China’s political and legal system, said Global Times quoting Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Government Integrity-Building at Peking University.

Zhenghua earlier served as the Justice Minister before taking a post at the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Meng Hongwei, who served as vice minister of public security, was sentenced to prison for 13 and a half years in January 2020 for bribery, Global Times reported.

Peng Bo, a former deputy head of the office for the central leading group for the prevention and handling of cult-related activities, was also expelled from the CPC in August over discipline breaches and face prosecution for grave offences, another high-profile case.

“Now we are at the new beginning of the next one hundred years of the CPC, we need to ensure the integrity of our political and legal system, so to guarantee the principle of rule by the law,” Zhuang Deshui said.

Thousands protest in Paris against China’s rights violation in Xinjiang Pic credits Philarty

Protest against rights violations

More than 2000 people gathered in Paris on October 2 and demonstrated against the ongoing rights violations of Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The protest was organised by multiple Uyghur organisations including the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Institute of Europe. The protest saw the participation of hundreds of Uyghur youth who had travelled from various European countries as well as public figures like Raphael Glucksmann, Member of European Parliament (MEP) and French actress Lucie Lucas.

The protestors marched from Bastille square to place de ka Republique shouting slogans ‘genocide in progress’ and ‘Save the Uyghurs’ and carrying banners and East Turkestan flags. During the speeches, a call was made to the international community to cancel all agreements between the European Union and China as well as boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

Further, many speakers denounced the complicity of multinational fashion companies like Zara, Hugo Boss and Uniqlo, who continued to buy products produced by forced Uyghur labour.

Earlier, the same day, the NGO ‘SumofUs’ in association with the World Uyghur Congress, held a protest outside the flagship Zara store in Paris’s Champs-Elysees, against the brand’s sourcing material from China that used Uyghur labour. This protest, timed to coincide with the Paris Fashion Week, was intended to draw the attention of other fashion brands to stop sourcing commodities from Xinjiang.

Assal Khamraeva -Aubert, the World Uyghur Congress’s representative in France and co-organiser of the event called on the French government to consider halting imports of products from Xinjiang that were produced using forced Uyghur labour. She added that the WUC hoped that apart from the international community recognising the Uyghur genocide, which would be a ‘symbolic victory’ it was also important to have an impact at the “economic level’.

Ibrahim Bechrouri, campaign manager of “SumOfUs” warned that similar protests would be organised in other European capitals including in Spain.

Some of the protestors specified the demands made by the movement, in particular, “the cancellation of the treaties signed between the European Union and China but also the cancellation of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022”, due to the “massacre” of Uyghurs. (ANI)

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