Statement on the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law taking effect
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Today, as the “Ethnic Unity and Progress” law comes into force in China, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China fully condemns its adoption and implementation as a flagrant breach of basic fundamental rights.
What Beijing describes as “sinicisation” is nothing less than a campaign of aggressive, state-mandated assimilation designed to systematically dismantle and erase the distinct linguistic, cultural and religious identities of Tibetans, Uyghurs and other ethnic minority groups within China.
Under the guise of “ethnic unity and progress” this new law provides cover for the Chinese Communist Party to further legitimise its campaign of systemic repression. In Xinjiang, Uyghurs remain subjected to forced labour with many living in confinement. In Tibet, Beijing has forcibly separated over one million children, some as young as three years old, from their families, language and spiritual heritage, placing them in state-run boarding schools engineered to indoctrinate and assimilate.
The law also applies beyond China’s borders. Organisations and individuals outside of China who engage in acts Beijing considers as undermining "ethnic unity and progress," or inciting "ethnic separatism" can be held legally accountable under Chinese law. This threatens not only Chinese activists, but all researchers, journalists, civil society actors, and politicians, who dare to tell the truth.
This law does not foster progress, it further entrenches persecution, both within China and abroad.
The Chinese Communist Party must immediately cease these destructive and divisive policies and honour their obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which they have ratified.
We urge all democratic governments to condemn and oppose this repressive law with every tool available.
ENDS
就《民族團結進步促進法》生效之聲明
《民族團結進步促進法》今日在中國正式生效，對中政策跨國議會聯盟（IPAC）強烈譴責此法的制定與施行，認定其嚴重違反基本人權。
北京所謂的「中國化」，實質上就是一場由國家主導、具有侵略性的同化運動，旨在系統性瓦解中國境內藏人、維吾爾人及其他少數民族獨特的語言、文化與宗教認同。
此法以「民族團結進步」為幌子，為中國共產黨加強系統性壓迫賦予正當性及提供掩護。在新疆，數十萬維吾爾人仍被迫從事強制勞動，當中不少人遭長期拘禁。在西藏，北京已強行拆散逾百萬名、最小僅三歲的兒童，使其脫離家庭、母語及精神傳承，被送入旨在灌輸思想、強制同化的國營寄宿學校。
此法效力更延伸至中國境外。海外組織及個人，凡北京認定為破壞「民族團結進步」或煽動「民族分裂」之行為，皆可依中國法律被追究法律責任。此舉不僅威脅到中國境內的維權人士，更威脅到所有敢於說出真相的研究人員、記者、公民社會人士及政治人物。
此法非但無助於團結進步，反而使境內外的迫害同步加劇。
中共必須立即停止這些破壞性且煽動分裂的政策，並履行其在《經濟、社會及文化權利國際公約》下的義務。
我們呼籲所有民主國家，動用一切可行手段譴責並反制此威迫性法律。
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