Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa urges Japan to join call for U.N. debate on alleged abuses in China

Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, attends a news conference with other leaders of the Chinese ethnic minority group at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan

Japan's motions and statements on the issue are an "empty promise, not enough to stop the ongoing genocide", Isa told reporters.

"Japanese parliament has some obligation to more actively engage in the Uyghur genocide," he said.

China denies any abuses of the Uyghur, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority based in the far western Xinjiang region, and has sent a government delegation to Geneva to counter what it says are erroneous findings by the U.N. rights office.