{"id":10524,"date":"2021-01-19T21:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118408\/britains-boris-johnson-fights-tory-revolt-over-china-genocide"},"modified":"2021-01-19T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:52:16","slug":"boris-johnson-fights-off-revolt-over-china-genocide-ruling-from-his-own-tory-party-after-calls-for-britain-to-judge-uygur-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/boris-johnson-fights-off-revolt-over-china-genocide-ruling-from-his-own-tory-party-after-calls-for-britain-to-judge-uygur-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson fights off revolt over China genocide ruling from his own Tory party after calls for Britain to judge Uygur treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated a rebellion by his own lawmakers on Tuesday after they pressed for British judges to be able to rule on whether China\u2019s Muslim Uygur minority is suffering genocide.The House of Commons narrowly voted down an amendment to a proposed law on international trade agreements which would have allowed victims to ask the High Court in London to rule on claims of genocide against potential trading partners, including China. The government would have had to consider\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118408\/britains-boris-johnson-fights-tory-revolt-over-china-genocide\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated a rebellion by his own lawmakers on Tuesday after they pressed for British judges to be able to rule on whether China\u2019s Muslim Uygur minority is suffering genocide.The House of Commons narrowly voted down an amendm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}