Canada votes to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees amid Chinese pressure to force their return

Move shows what is happening to the Uyghurs is unacceptable', says MP after non-binding parliamentary ballot with prime minister's support

Canada's parliament has unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China, but are now facing pressure to return.

The vote on Wednesday builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its north-western Xinjiang territory as genocide.