Washington DC, April 19 -- Rushan Abbas, Executive Committee Chair of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, in an address at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) highlighted the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) systematic use of financial repression to control and erase the Uyghur population, as reported by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC).

According to WUC report, in her speech, Abbas detailed how economic tools are weaponized as part of the CCP's broader campaign of persecution, calling the tactics "a devastating financial dimension to the genocide Uyghurs are facing."

She emphasized that Uyghurs are frequently stripped of property and homes without compensation, subjected to arbitrary freezes on b...