{"id":786937,"date":"2022-09-05T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/uyghur-exiles-demand-action-abuses-china-xinjiang-un-report"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:59:52","slug":"our-people-are-still-trapped-uyghur-exiles-demand-action-on-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/05\/our-people-are-still-trapped-uyghur-exiles-demand-action-on-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our people are still trapped\u2019: Uyghur exiles demand action on abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise failure of UN report to label China\u2019s crackdown on Muslim minorities genocide<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like my house is on fire, it\u2019s burning down and my children, my family is trapped inside,\u201d said Zumrat Dawut via video link. \u201cI scream and scream for the world to come, and help me put out the fire, but at times I feel like no one is coming to our rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, as Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, finished her term and released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/five-key-points-from-the-un-report-on-xinjiang-china-human-rights-abuses-uyghur-muslims\">long-awaited report<\/a> on abuses in Xinjiang, Dawut was protesting alongside other Uyghur exiles in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/uyghur-exiles-demand-action-abuses-china-xinjiang-un-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise failure of UN report to label China\u2019s crackdown on Muslim minorities genocide\u201cI feel like my house is on fire, it\u2019s burning down and my children, my family is trapped inside,\u201d said Zumrat Dawut via video link. \u201cI scream and scream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786937"}],"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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787038,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786937\/revisions\/787038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}