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Planning the next stage of the #GenocideAmendment with @ipacglobal colleagues @MPIainDS @Nus_Ghani and @DavidAltonHL
#Uyghurs must have their day in court. Without a judgment, the @GOVUK won’t act.
As HongKongers would say: add oil!
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Canada urges UK 'do right thing' - China is to blame for Uighur genocide | The Express
Featuring comment from #IPAC members @Nus_Ghani and @DavidAltonHL in support of revised #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill.
express.co.uk/news/world/140…
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❗️ACTION ALERT: Please sign Holocaust survivor Ruth Barnett’s petition.
She wants to meet @BorisJohnson to discuss China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and to urge him to support the #GenocideAmendment
Please help her get this meeting.
change.org/p/boris-johnso…
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I think we'll be looking at mass abstentions tomorrow. The #GenocideAmendment passed the Lords with a 171 vote majority. The Government is preventing the @HouseofCommons from voting on it at all.
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Update on #GenocideAmendment
👉Revised version back in House of Lords 2nd Feb publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill…
👉Commons vote could be v soon after, tbc.
👉Expecting a Gov concession in the Commons to buy off our rebels. Our position: no court, no deal. Here’s why 👇
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Thanks @MaajidNawaz for having me.
Please, go to genocideresponse.org and write to your MP. Ask them to back the #GenocideAmendment
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MPs must back the genocide amendment to oppose the oppression of the Uighurs | Times Red Box
IPAC advisor @benedictrogers and @LabourCHR chair @MatthewCTurner write in support of IPAC #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill.
thetimes.co.uk/article/mps-mu…
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"The UK must act now to save Uighur lives from ethnic cleansing"
#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima writes in the Times in support of IPAC #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill.
thetimes.co.uk/article/the-uk…
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#BREAKING: seems likely @DominicRaab is going to announce sanctions of #Uyghur abusing officials today in a bid to head of defeat on #GenocideAmendment
Massive win for this campaign, if so! twitter.com/MrHarryCole/st…
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BREAKING: #GenocideAmendment with @neill_bob amendment incorporated passes the @UKHouseofLords 367 214 another huge majority of 153
It's the only amendment going to @HouseofCommons
Meanwhile 👇
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Very good letter. Hope @DominicRaab is listening. I’ve been humbled by the energy and sheer professionalism of the young people campaigning for the #GenocideAmendment twitter.com/YetAgainUK/sta…
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Formal legal opinion concludes there is a 'credible case' China is carrying out a genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
The decision opens the way for the Uyghur case to be heard by UK High Courts if the #GenocideAmendment passes in the UK House of Commons.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-559732…
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#Breaking UK Government intends to prevent a vote on the #GenocideAmendment AGAIN.
They will instead re-table @neill_bob wrecking amendment which excludes #Uyghurs
From a Government letter to all MPs.
Really poor.
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Latest: Government *deliberately* tabled their amendment 2nd to preclude the Speaker accepting a manuscript amendment. Now 100% certain this was to prevent a Commons vote on the #GenocideAmendment
Whips also going nuts about @LOS_Fisher exposing their bullying.
Not a good look.
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Breaking: President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews asks @BorisJohnson to support the #GenocideAmendment
The actions of the Board are unprecedented and almost unbearably poignant, doing everything they can to defend #Uyghurs twitter.com/BoardofDeputie…
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The UK will have a "two tier system" for genocide determination if it refuses to examine alleged genocide against Uyghurs.
#IPAC member @Nus_Ghani MP moves the #GenocideAmendment in the Commons.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS blasts UK government's attempts to block a vote on the #GenocideAmendment as "arcane procedural games” that "demean democracy".
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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Breaking: Two Holocaust survivors ask @BorisJohnson for a meeting about the #GenocideAmendment ahead of the Commons vote. politico.eu/article/holoca…
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"Instead of a beacon of light and hope, today we have gone into the dark corridors of procedural purdah."
#IPAC UK co-chair @MPIainDS on government moves to block a vote on the IPAC backed #GenocideAmendment to the Trade Bill.
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Cross-party group of IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs leading support for #GenocideAmendment to the Trade Bill.
If passed, the UK would be the first country globally to consider genocide cases in domestic courts.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
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BREAKING: IPAC 🇬🇧 #GenocideAmendment narrowly defeated by 319 votes to 308.
#IPAC members from all parties will now work to bring a revised amendment to be re-tabled in the House or Lords.
Full statement 👉ipac.global/uk-government-…
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💪💪 🚨🚨 GREAT NEWS! @sajidjavid “sympathetic” to #GenocideAmendment which will stop UK buying PPE that may have been made through #Uyghur forced labour.
WE CAN DO THIS ✊
Write to your MP👇👇
#UnmaskGenocide
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
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“The fight does not end here. We will continue to do all we can to ensure that Uighurs and other victims of alleged genocide have a route to justice through UK courts.”
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL on efforts to bring #GenocideAmendment to Trade Bill.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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Managing expectations:
Government has prevented a vote on the #GenocideAmendment so only one vote counts today:
The vote on @neill_bob wrecking amendment. If it passes, we put courts back in when it goes to the Lords. If it fails, we put entire amendment back in the Lords. 👏