US bolsters Uyghur rights in new defense bill
President Joe Biden recently signed the 2025 defense spending bill, endorsing $895 billion in funding and extending the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act for another five years.
Key measures in the act include monitoring human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang and imposing sanctions on Chinese officials linked to “genocide” against Uyghurs.
The bipartisan legislation, championed by Sens. Marco Rubio and Jeff Merkley, aims to heighten pressure to halt the atrocities in Chinese-occupied Eastern Turkestan.
Additionally, the defense bill prevents U.S. military funds from purchasing solar products made in the region.
The Uyghur region is known for forced labor issues and mandates a Pentagon review on the procurement of potentially slave-labor seafood.
Uyghur-American activists, represented by Omer Kanat of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, hailed the legislation as a significant step toward justice.
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