In a reply given by the Supreme Court of India to an application under the Right to Information Act(RTI Act) has revealed crucial information. 1072 cases relating to bail and suspension of sentence are pending in the Supreme Court as on December 18, 2020. This includes 931 petitions seeking bail/interim-bail and 141 cases seeking suspension of sentence.

"It's been eight years, moving from one court to the next court and then the next, but no one has been able to bring my husband back. My son was two years old when my husband was abducted. He has yet to see his father properly."

By now, the horrors that the Uyghur Muslims are facing in China are common knowledge; torture, sterilization of Uyghur women, forced separation and forced labour. Regarding forced labour, the US has introduced a series of bills, the most recent one is entitled “the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.”

The World Wars wrought havoc on the Western system; the empires collapsed and the number of nation states rose exponentially. This rise was hailed as a victory for people across the world; we were no longer at the mercy of the European powers, but we finally had our rights and could rule in accordance to what was best for us.