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NBA's Kanter calls for end of Uyghur genocide
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NBA's Kanter calls for end of Uyghur genocide

Over 120,000 Uyghurs are detained in “re-education camps,” though the true number may be as large as one million.

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NBA Center Enes Kanter called for China’s leader Xi Jinping to end the persecution of Uyghur peoples in a video posted on Twitter last Friday.

Kanter, who is of Turkish nationality and has spoken out about various social causes in the past, urged the ruling Communist Party of China to end what he called the genocide of members of the Uyghur ethnic group. The Chinese government has subsequently stopped streaming Boston Celtics games, as Kanter plays for the Celtics.

Kanter called on the “heartless Dictator of China” Xi Jinping to end the detention and persecution of Uyghurs in his 3-minute-long video. “I am calling you out in front of the whole world. Close down the SLAVE labor camps and free the UYGHUR people," he said. “Stop the GENOCIDE, now! #FreeUyghurs,” he added on the video's caption.

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Kanter also called out fellow prominent Muslim athletes Mohamed Salah and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, along with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin-Salman, and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, saying “it's shameful and sad that you have chosen to prioritize money and business with China over human rights.”

“You call yourself Muslims, but you are just using that for show.”