WUC Condemns Racist Chinese Media Attacks on Japanese Minister Arfiya Eri

• World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemned racist remarks by Chinese media against Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister Arfiya Eri.
• Chinese website Sina.com and Global Times on TikTok targeted Eri's Uyghur heritage, calling her "frontier poison" and "toxic."
• Eri, whose parents are from East Turkistan, is the first person of Uyghur origin elected to a national parliament in the diaspora (Japan, 2023).
• Japanese government lodged a formal diplomatic protest with China over the "unprecedented insult."
• WUC President Turgunjan Alawdun linked the incident to broader discrimination and China's transnational repression policy, urging a public apology from Chinese authorities.