As the 2022 Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing, a pair of House lawmakers are jointly nominating the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Campaign for Uyghurs to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing ongoing atrocities committed by the Chinese government.In a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) — who co-chair the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus — wrote that both groups have raised critical awareness of abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups by Beijing in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.“The UHRP and the Campaign for Uyghurs have made significant contributions to building fraternity between nations and promoting peace by defending the human rights of the Uyghur, Kazakh, and other predominately Muslim ethnic minorities that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has targeted with genocide and other crimes against humanity,” they wrote.
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