The cases · East Turkistan (Xinjiang)

The Uyghurs

UN findings of possible crimes against humanity already exist. The work is to keep forced-labour goods out of the supply chains that buy them.

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Means of power

This case in the plan

The Uyghurs in figures

Goals

What we aim for by month 12.

The goals

Actions by AI

The team approves each one.

The work

Milestones

What will be done, and when.

When

Goals

What we aim for by month 12

Justice Council Relief Waqf Trust

International.The trust is registered, audited and under a sharia board, holds zakat and waqf in trust, and is paying relief in Gaza, Sudan, the Rohingya camps and to Uyghur families through verified channels, with a ring-fenced, sanctions-proof Palestine fund and UNRWA's cut services funded.Approved by the Operations, Finance and AI Manager.

Independent Scholars' Council

International.The council has issued joint rulings (fatwas) that enforcing the existing rulings is a duty of Muslim states and communities, and mosques in many countries preach and act on them, in place of the captured OIC Fiqh Academy and Muslim World League.Approved by the Chair.

Banks, firms, investors and standard-setters

International.Shippers, insurers, banks, refiners and asset managers have adopted exclusion lists built from the listings tracker, covering the named Myanmar fuel vessels and Cai Mep terminal, UAE-refined Sudanese gold, military cargo to Israel and listed Xinjiang forced-labour entities.Approved by the Operations, Finance and AI Manager.

Sanctions, customs and export regulators

National.Customs and export regulators apply the forced-labour bans to third-country routes and seafood and processors, and sanctions authorities have extended designations to the Sudanese gold, fuel and aviation enablers.Approved by the Legal Manager.

Mosques, zakat and waqf bodies and Muslim households

Local.Mosques and households give zakat and waqf to the trust through two giving cycles, avoid listed goods, and keep each case before the congregation from the pulpit.Approved by the Operations, Finance and AI Manager.

The year

The work, quarter by quarter

AI does every action; the team approves before anything goes out.

Months 1-3 · Build the first version of the listings tracker, documenting the firms, vessels, flights, refiners and brokers that carry arms, fuel, gold and forced-labour goods to the perpetrators (the four named Myanmar fuel vessels and Cai Mep, the UAE-linked Sudan routes through Amdjarass, UAE-refined Sudanese gold, military cargo to Israel, listed Xinjiang entities), to a standard national courts can use, and share it with the UN mechanisms.

Months 1-3 · Draft the waqf trust deed, sharia board terms, audit and sanctions-compliance rules, and the ring-fenced Palestine fund, with settlement in local currencies and no interest-bearing instrument.

Months 1-3 · Ask mosques and zakat committees to give their Ramadan zakat and waqf through the trust, for Gaza famine relief, Darfur, the Rohingya camps and Uyghur families, and to preach each case from the pulpit.

AI does: prepares the ask, the briefing and the follow-up for Mosques, zakat and waqf bodies and Muslim households, books the meetings and sends everything once approved; a team member attends only where a person must be in the room.The Operations, Finance and AI Manager approves: Mosque networks committed to give through the trust in Ramadan. The Chair co-signs anything said or paid in the Council's name.With International Union of Muslim Scholars, UNRWA.Cases: Palestine, Sudan, The Rohingya, The Uyghurs, India's Muslims.

Months 4-6 · Prepare the Independent Scholars' Council's evidence briefs and mosque sermon kits on the duty to enforce the rulings, the boycott of listed firms and zakat for each case.

Months 4-6 · Ask customs authorities to apply the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to goods routed through third countries and to seafood and processors, and to publish detentions with the intermediaries involved.

AI does: prepares the ask, the briefing and the follow-up for Sanctions, customs and export regulators, books the meetings and sends everything once approved; a team member attends only where a person must be in the room.The Legal Manager approves: Customs commitments on third-country tracing. The Chair co-signs anything said or paid in the Council's name.With Uyghur diaspora and documentation groups.Cases: The Uyghurs.

Months 7-9 · Ask shippers, insurers, banks, refiners and asset managers to exclude the tracker's listings: the four Myanmar fuel vessels and the Cai Mep terminal, MOGE, UAE-refined Sudanese gold, military cargo to Israel and listed Xinjiang entities.

AI does: prepares the ask, the briefing and the follow-up for Banks, firms, investors and standard-setters, books the meetings and sends everything once approved; a team member attends only where a person must be in the room.The Operations, Finance and AI Manager approves: First exclusion lists adopted. The Chair co-signs anything said or paid in the Council's name.With Dockworkers' unions and port authorities, Uyghur diaspora and documentation groups.Cases: Palestine, Sudan, The Rohingya, The Uyghurs.

Months 7-9 · Map Uyghur forced-labour exposure for importers in seafood, cotton and solar, with intermediaries, and prepare it for importers and investors ahead of the EU's December 2027 enforcement.

Months 10-12 · Ask the Union of Muslim Scholars to extend its rulings to Sudan, Myanmar, the Uyghurs and India, and with the Independent Scholars' Council have mosques preach each case and give a second zakat cycle through the trust.

AI does: prepares the ask, the briefing and the follow-up for International Union of Muslim Scholars, books the meetings and sends everything once approved; a team member attends only where a person must be in the room.The Chair approves: Scholars' rulings on all five cases and a second giving cycle.With International Union of Muslim Scholars.Cases: Palestine, Sudan, The Rohingya, The Uyghurs, India's Muslims.

Months 10-12 · Ask the Commission to adopt a binding definition of 'substantiated concern', publish the forced-labour risk database naming Xinjiang high-risk and extend traceability to transhipped goods before enforcement begins in December 2027.

AI does: prepares the ask, the briefing and the follow-up for European Commission, books the meetings and sends everything once approved; a team member attends only where a person must be in the room.The Advocacy and Lobby Manager approves: Xinjiang named high-risk with traceability rules. The Chair co-signs anything said or paid in the Council's name.With European Commission, Uyghur diaspora and documentation groups.Cases: The Uyghurs.

Milestones

When

Justice Council Relief Waqf Trust is registered with trustees and a sharia board

Independent Scholars' Council issues its first joint rulings on the duty to enforce the existing rulings

Shippers, insurers and investors adopt the first exclusion list built from the listings

M11

European Commission adopts the 'substantiated concern' definition and names Xinjiang high-risk

The other cases

Five cases, one plan

The work shared by every case (the Compact, the waqf, the scholars' council) is on the Justice Council Plan.

Palestine

Gaza, the West Bank and al-Quds

Open the case

Sudan

Darfur and El Fasher

Open the case

The Rohingya

Myanmar and the camps of Bangladesh

Open the case

India's Muslims

India and Kashmir

Open the case

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