At the age of 70. Anniversary of the UN human rights Charter has met Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier with China’s leadership in Beijing. The oppression of ethnic and religious minorities overshadowed the talks.
The police came in the night, and they took about one hundred Church members. The days of the Early Rain Covenant Church, a Protestant underground Church in China’s southwest, is likely to be counted. Zhang Guoqiang, one of the Church leader, was released on Monday. He reported to the newspaper “South China Morning Post” that the Church had been declared illegal. Each Assembly is prohibited from now on.
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“Everyone has the right to thought, conscience and freedom of religion” in article 18 of the universal Declaration of human rights, which was announced today 70 years ago by the United Nations. However, even at 70. Anniversary are detained in China people because of their faith. For years, the government is trying, under Prime Minister Li Keqiang and President Xi Jinping, to control the life of faith in the country. This applies in particular to Muslims, but also Christians and other religious minorities in the country.
“We can take from the outside with no influence”
All of this took place this Monday in the room, to be exact, in the Great hall of the people, as the Federal President, Steinmeier Keqiang, first with Prime Minister Li and then the state President Xi Jinping met. At both Meetings, he spoke to the importance of human rights. He had initially stressed that his visit should also be used as a show of Respect before the achievements of China to be understood. “No one should underestimate the importance of this, that it is in China, we have managed to liberate several hundred million people out of poverty,” said Steinmeier. The main theme of the trip, neither the poverty nor the human rights, but the opportunities and risks of the digital Revolution. However, Steinmeier spoke to Xi Jinping to the Concerns in menschenr questions of law which he had received in the course of his journey from non-governmental organizations to hear. “It’s been noted,” said Steinmeier, subsequently, to representatives of the press. And had to admit: “We can take from the outside with no influence.”
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Not only in the Great hall of the people, in his speech before students in Chengdu, Steinmeier avoided the topic of human rights. In the city is also the former human rights lawyer and Pastor Wang Yi, who founded the Early Rain Covenant Church sits, is in custody. He had used in the summer with several other Church communities in China together for the freedom of religion. In his speech, Steinmeier recalled the 70 years ago, adopted the universal Declaration of human rights as part of the international order, the co-founders currently range from “influence” in doubt. A side swipe that was probably US President Donald Trump.
Surveillance anywhere
Steinmeier was for the first Time as President in the people’s Republic to be a guest, but not for the first Time ever, to emphasize how he was during his nearly week-long trip, tired. Since his last trips have changed a lot, says Steinmeier. On the square of Heavenly peace is not only the strict views of the first political leader of the people’s Republic, Mao Zedong, but also by numerous police officers and surveillance cameras guards today. The people’s Republic, celebrates in the coming year, your 80-year anniversary, not only goes against religious minorities harder. The Land is to be transformed using state of the art facial recognition technology in a perfect surveillance state, fear of observers.
Security forces in front of a mosque in the Xinjiang province
Even if the anniversary of the Charter of human rights only happen with the interview: The German Delegation aware of that accent. Only by the participation of the human rights of the Federal government, Bärbel Kofler, who was sitting in the two calls next to Steinmeier officer. “The human rights situation in China is deteriorating more and more,” said Kofler before the talks in Beijing. Affected the freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom of Assembly, but also the situation of minorities in provinces such as Tibet and Xinjiang.
Up to a Million Uighurs in Camps
In the Tibetan city of Lhasa Kofler had taken in the past week after a year break the German-Chinese human rights dialogue. “You get the answers that are already known,” she said of the talks with Chinese government representatives. Koflers desire to have a dialogue in Xinjiang was refused. For your information, according to the province, with its approximately ten million inhabitants, between 500,000 and a Million Muslim Uighurs temporarily in the “re-education camps” inter are said to have been interned or are still in these Camps.
Federal President of Germany, Steinmeier pointed out in his conversation with President Xi Jinping, on Concerns about the situation in Xinjiang – it is, however, questionable whether the encounters open ears. Worry there is also that China could extend the approach in Xinjiang to other provinces with Muslim minorities. It reports on agreements between Beijing and each of the provincial governments. Steinmeier on his trip to China diplomatically-restrained remains. But journalists did not always recognize: “China needs to see that the picture is what emerged in the Public world, is the only change that it produces transparency.” After his Meeting with the Chinese leadership, Steinmeier was only an hour until his departure. He had used, it was out of his Delegation to come again with “representatives of the civil society” into the conversation.
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