He is also an advocate for the human rights of the Uyghur people and for the independence of East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
ET, Sept. 12, on the transnational repression campaign that China's ruling Chinese Communist Party engaged in, harassing diaspora communities and regime critics, specifically Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Tibetans, and others from suppressed groups in China.
Liu's oversight of counterterrorism efforts coincided with mounting international scrutiny of the human rights situation in Xinjiang, particularly the mass detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in so-called reeducation camps.
Ottawa has also condemned China’s human rights violations, issuing sanctions last year against Chinese officials involved in the oppression of Falun Gong practitioners and ethnic minorities, including Tibetans and Uyghurs.
He also highlighted Beijing’s “genocidal campaign of forced sterilization, forced detention, and reeducation” against Uyghurs in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
We all know how much Beijing is paranoid about any “interference” in its affairs (incarceration of Uyghurs, elimination of Tibetan culture, persecution of Falun Gong, threats against Taiwan, etc.).
In December 2024, Canada added Wu and seven other Chinese officials to its sanctions list for their involvement in the CCP's repressions against Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Falun Gong practitioners.
It should mobilize the legal system to sanction China’s IP theft, illicit support of Russia and Iran, facilitation of the fentanyl crisis, and perpetration of atrocities against the Uyghurs.
Several CCP officials have also been sanctioned in connection to abuses against Uyghurs, including Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
"In regard to the Uyghurs, the tribunal had evidence of medical testing on a scale that could allow them, amongst other users, to become an organ bank.
The aide allegedly blocked Taiwan’s access to the governor’s office and removed references to the Uyghurs from official speeches. In exchange, the aide allegedly received millions of dollars' worth of business.
The senators also expressed concern about the importation of drugs that may be linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, where the U.S. government has determined that the Chinese regime is committing genocide and crimes against Uyghurs and other
Researchers have found that the chatbot's responses often align with the Party's official narratives, reflecting the CCP's views on sensitive issues such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, the treatment of Uyghur Muslims, and Taiwan's sovereignty.
In November 2025, Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the UK Conservative Party, who was sanctioned by China in 2021 after he highlighted the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, told The Epoch Times that the new Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court would
Trade Committee Chair Liam Byrne, one of the leading opponents of Shein's listing in London, has pressured the company about whether its garments involve forced labor in China's Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has long subjected the local Uyghur
Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, and mainland Chinese dissidents have all reported intimidation, threats, and surveillance in Canada," Lee said.
"This is not about geopolitics—it’s about safety.
State Department Human Rights Report, the methods used include torture, sexual assault, and forced labour, and it notes reports of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs.
Under the plan, the systems are to be flown first from Urumqi, in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, then transited overland through Pakistan into Iran. Sources did not specify whether the Pakistan-to-Iran leg would move by air or road.
"Not only Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians will feel this pressure," he said. "Chinese and Hong Kong pro-democracy activists [outside of China] will increasingly feel it as well."
Such an event would, in this case, honor a "totalitarian government" responsible for the persecution of people of all faiths, a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs, and subsidizing the chemicals used to make the illicit fentanyl entering U.S. borders, Moolenaar
Following the U.N. expert’s appeal, Waltz took to X demanding that the CCP release Abbas, saying she “is one of millions of Uyghur Muslim political prisoners in China.”
The Canadian subsidiaries of all three companies are accused of relying on suppliers who source materials from Uyghur people forced to work in China’s Xinjiang region.
