HRC63 - EU Statement - HRC63 Item 4 Human Rights Situations tha... 8 of 10 https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-geneva/hrc63-eu-statemen... and the Committee against Torture, and with all international human rights mechanisms, including towards the implementation of the recommendations included in the assessment report on the human rights concerns in Xinjiang and follow-up to the report as well as through the facilitation of visits of the High Commissioner and the Special Procedures mandate holders to regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet. The human rights situation in Tibet continues to be dire. Indicators of this include largescale coercive enrolment in obligatory boarding schools and the suppression of protests. We are concerned about reports that Tibetan schools teaching Tibetan language and culture have been shut down and that Chinese authorities have insisted that all students attend state schools where Tibetan is only taught as a separate subject. We encourage China to cooperate with international human rights mechanisms, including all relevant Special Procedures mandates and treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee against Torture. We continue to closely monitor the situation and call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defenders, including Gulshan Abbas, Ekpar Asat, Chadrel Rinpoche, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, Rahile Dawut, Ding Jiaxi, Dong Yuyu, Du Bin, Gao Zhen, Gao Zhisheng, Go Sherab Gyatso, He Fangmei, Huang Qi, Huang Xueqin, Hushtar Isa, Yalkun Isa, Ji Xiaolong, Jimmy Lai, Peng Lifa, Qin Yongming, Ruan Xiaohuan, Semkyi Dolma, Tashi Dorje, Tashpolat Tiyip, Sakharov Prize winner Ilham Tohti, Wang Bingzhang, Pastor Wang Yi, Xie Yang, Xu Na, Xu Zhiyong, Yang Hengjun, Yang Maodong, Yin Xu’an, Zhang Yadi and Zhang Zhan, as well as EU citizen Gui Minhai whose right to consular access must be respected. The EU remains concerned about the repressive use of national security legislation in Hong Kong, including its extraterritorial application, notably through repeated issuance of arrest warrants and bounties targeting individuals living outside Hong Kong. The EU is following with great concern the politically motivated national security trials of politicians, journalists, civil society actors and pro-democracy representatives. We call upon the authorities to consider their unconditional and immediate release. The sweeping changes in the electoral system have further eroded democratic principles and political pluralism. The EU urges the Chinese government and the Hong Kong authorities to restore full respect for the rule of law, human rights, including fundamental freedoms, and democratic principles, and to preserve Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy under the ‘one country, two systems’ principle, in compliance with Hong Kong’s Basic Law and China’s domestic and international obligations. Regarding the human rights situation in Sudan, the EU appreciates the indispensable work of the Independent International Fact Finding Mission (FFM) for the Sudan under extremely 22/09/2026, 16:14