The woman is one of dozens of expected witnesses who will testify at a U.K. tribunal investigating possible genocide against China's Uyghurs.
A Uyghur woman was forced by authorities in China's Xinjiang region to abort her fifth child in 2007 when she was six and a half months pregnant, the Associated Press reported. The woman, Bumeryem Rozi, described being rounded up with other pregnant women, put in a car and taken to the hospital.
Rozi, who fled China and lives in Istanbul, is one of dozens of expected witnesses who will begin testifying Friday for an independent U.K. tribunal that is investigating whether China committed genocide against the Uyghurs. Coordinators hope that the public testimony and assemblage of evidence will spur international investigation.
The tribunal is the latest attempt to hold China accountable for alleged rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim and ethnic Turkic minorities.
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