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On December 9, 2021, the UK Uyghur Tribunal (Tribunal) issued its judgment on China’s possible responsibility for “international crimes against the Uyghurs and other Muslim Population in the Uyghur region.” The Tribunal, which was launched on September 3, 2020, is an independent people’s tribunal that investigates “‘ongoing atrocities and possible genocide’ against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim Populations.” According to summary of the judgment (the full judgment is not yet available), the Tribunal, after evaluating all evidence presented to it, ruled that torture of Uyghurs and crimes against humanity by the People’s Republic of China is established beyond reasonable doubt. The Tribunal concluded that, as to genocide, all elements of an intended genocide are established, and that “[i]f the ‘part’ [subject of the intended destruction] is sufficiently large then genocide would be proved.”