Join us for a special conference about the ongoing genocide perpetrated against members of the Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim minorities by the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

• Monday, March 22 at 12 pm on Zoom
• Registration is free and required in advance

Reports from various credible sources – notably survivors, human rights organizations, activists, journalists, legal experts and scholars – have demonstrated that, under the guise of combating religious extremism, the Government of China has committed one of the gravest crimes according to international criminal law.

The Panelists

The one-hour event will include presentations from Mehmet Tohti, Executive Director of Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, Rayhan Asat, human rights attorney and advocate, the Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy for Holocaust remembrance and the fight against antisemitism, Mia Hasenson-Gross, Executive Director of René Cassin, Eva Kuper, Holocaust survivor speaker and Board Member at the Montreal Holocaust Museum, Dorothy Zalcman Howard, Immediate Past President of the Montreal Holocaust Museum, and Rabbi Anthony Knopf of Congregation Beth Ora.

Organized in partnership with Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, CIJA Quebec, The Jewish Public Library, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée de Québec, Hillel Montreal, Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, the Montreal Board of Rabbis, and Semaine d’actions contre le racisme