Washington DC, March 11 -- The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has strongly condemned what it described as racist and defamatory remarks made by Chinese media outlets against Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Arfiya Eri, calling the incident an example of discrimination and transnational intimidation targeting Uyghurs.

In a press release, WUC stated that the controversy began on February 27 when the Chinese media website Sina.com published remarks attacking Eri's ethnic background. The report allegedly referred to the Japanese official as "frontier poison" and "toxic," language that the WUC said amounted to racial abuse directed at her Uyghur heritage. The statements were later circulated on the social media platform T...