AN MP has secured an urgent question in the House of Commons in response to the "barbaric torture" of Uyghur women in China.
Nus Ghani, MP for Wealden, addressed parliament over welfare concerns revealed in a film broadcast by the BBC.
The documentary about women incarcerated in Xinjiang showed evidence of "systematic rape and sexual abuse" by the Chinese state.
On Thursday, the Conservative MP quizzed the Foreign Secretary on how the government was going to get the court judgement it needed to act.
She said: "The BBC broadcast a harrowing footage of Chinese state orchestrated abuse against Uygur women on an unprecedented scale.
"These horrifying stories add to the huge and growing body of evidence detailing atrocities perpetrated by the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang.
"Atrocities which may even be genocidal.
"We cannot be bystanders to the deliberate attempt to exterminate a group of people. Not again.
"The United Kingdom cannot stand by and do nothing about the extermination of the Uyghur – mass rapes, scalping and forced sterilization.
"We can act and we must act. It’s time for Britain to be on the right side of history.”
It comes a month after Boris Johnson faced a rebellion from Tory backbenchers who backed a “genocide amendment” to block a potential trade deal with China over its human rights record.
Ms Ghani was one of the MPs who wanted to amend the Trade Bill amid growing concern among over the treatment of the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
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