{"id":50285,"date":"2021-02-23T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/feb\/23\/no-10-rejects-plan-for-peers-to-examine-genocide-claims"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:17:24","slug":"no-10-rejects-plan-for-peers-to-examine-genocide-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/no-10-rejects-plan-for-peers-to-examine-genocide-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Peers vote for &#8216;judicial committee&#8217; to assess genocide claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal is attempt to find compromise on issue after two rejections in Commons<br><\/p><p>The government\u2019s marathon resistance to giving the UK judiciary any role in determining if a country is committing genocide has suffered a fresh blow after peers voted to set up an ad hoc five-strong parliamentary judicial committee to assess evidence of genocide crimes. The peers voted in favour by a majority of 367 to 214, a majority of 153.<\/p><p>It is the third time peers have voted for the measure in various forms and Tory whips will have to face down a third rebellion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/feb\/09\/uk-ministers-accused-cynically-blocking-clear-vote-genocide\">on the issue<\/a> when the trade bill returns to the Commons. The judicial but parliamentary genocide assessment would be made if the government was planning to sign a new trade or economic agreement and would be most relevant to claims that China is committing genocide against the Uighur Muslims in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/being-young-leads-to-detention-in-chinas-xingiang-region\">Xinjiang province<\/a>.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/feb\/09\/uk-ministers-accused-cynically-blocking-clear-vote-genocide\">UK ministers accused of cynically blocking clear vote on genocide<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/feb\/23\/no-10-rejects-plan-for-peers-to-examine-genocide-claims\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/feb\/23\/no-10-rejects-plan-for-peers-to-examine-genocide-claims\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal is attempt to find compromise on issue after two rejections in CommonsThe government\u2019s marathon resistance to giving the UK judiciary any role in determining if a country is committing genocide has suffered a fresh blow after peers voted to se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,1727,1318,1333,3385,6,1331,14,105,2763,1323,1314,111,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50285"}],"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\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50746,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50285\/revisions\/50746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}