High court could rule on whether Uighur people are suffering genocide in China if amendment passes
The Foreign Office was facing a battle to stave off a parliamentary defeat after the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was backing calls for the British courts to be given a new role in determining if the Uighur people are suffering genocide in China.
Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, is seeking to overturn an all party amendment passed in the Lords giving victims of genocide the power to ask the UK high court to determine if genocide is taking place. Such a determination would require the government to consider pulling out of any free trade agreement.
