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Nusrat Ghani – a tireless campaigner for the Uyghur people – has narrowly missed out on winning the inaugural NATO Parliamentary Assembly “Women for Peace and Security” Award. The Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden was among six candidates shortlisted. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, took home the prize.
Ghani was one of several public figures sanctioned by President Xi Jinping at the end of March. Far from being suppressed, Ghani’s subsequent motion declaring genocide in the Xinjiang province – a move Iain Duncan Smith hailed as “historic” – passed unanimously in the House of Commons.
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Ghani says she is “proud” to have been recognised by NATO for “calling out the torture and forced sterilisation of Uyghur women by the Chinese Communist Party”.
Congratulations.
