The protest was organised by a number of Uyghur organisations together with the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Institute of Europe. The protest noticed the participation of a whole lot of Uyghur youth who had travelled from numerous European nations in addition to public figures like Raphael Glucksmann, Member of European Parliament (MEP) and French actress Lucie Lucas.
The protestors marched from Bastille sq. to position de ka Republique shouting slogans ‘genocide in progress’ and ‘Save the Uyghurs’ and carrying banners and East Turkestan flags. In the course of the speeches, a name was made to the worldwide neighborhood to cancel all agreements between the European Union and China in addition to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.
Additional, many audio system denounced the complicity of multinational style firms like Zara, Hugo Boss and Uniqlo, who continued to purchase merchandise produced by pressured Uyghur labour.
Earlier, the identical day, the NGO ‘SumofUs’ in affiliation with the World Uyghur Congress, held a protest exterior the flagship Zara retailer in Paris’s Champs-Elysees, in opposition to the model’s sourcing materials from China that used Uyghur labour. This protest, timed to coincide with the Paris Style Week, was supposed to attract the eye of different style manufacturers to cease sourcing commodities from Xinjiang.
Assal Khamraeva -Aubert, the World Uyghur Congress’s consultant in France and co-organiser of the occasion known as on the French authorities to contemplate halting imports of merchandise from Xinjiang that had been produced utilizing pressured Uyghur labour. She added that the WUC hoped that aside from the worldwide neighborhood recognising the Uyghur genocide, which might be a ‘symbolic victory’ it was additionally essential to have an effect on the “financial degree’.
Ibrahim Bechrouri, marketing campaign supervisor of “SumOfUs” warned that comparable protests can be organised in different European capitals together with in Spain.
Among the protestors specified the calls for made by the motion, particularly, “the cancellation of the treaties signed between the European Union and China but additionally the cancellation of the Olympic Video games in Beijing 2022”, because of the “bloodbath” of Uyghurs.