Dozens of federal MPs back motion accusing China of human rights breaches against Uyghur people

Two federal members of Parliament have compared China’s treatment of Uyghurs to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, with politicians across the spectrum lining up to condemn human rights abuses in Xinjiang. 

A dozen MPs from the Coalition, Labor, and the Greens have spoken in favour of a motion put forward by veteran Liberal MP Kevin Andrews which expresses “abhorrence” at “systematic” breaches of human rights…