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"This is no longer only about Hong Kong – it is about freedom itself."
#IPAC advisor @benedictrogers calls for a global response to the exlcusion of elected opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong.
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BREAKING: Five #IPAC 🇬🇧 members hit by Chinese government sanctions issue joint statement.
"These actions are not only an attack on us as individuals, but an attempt to stifle the free and open debate that is at the heart of our parliamentary democracy."
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#IPAC 🇦🇺 member @kevinandrewsmp calls for Australia to adopt Magnitsky human rights sanctions legislation and to scrap Victoria State's involvement in China's Belt and Road Initiative.
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Firms complicit with the gross abuse and invasive surveillance of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang should have no place in the European Parliament.
Letter signed by #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs @MiriamMLex @bueti @AnnaFotyga_PE @ViolavonCramon to @EP_President on #hikvision. twitter.com/MiriamMLex/sta…
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Coverage of attempts to silence #IPAC advisor @Anne_MarieBrady after exposing links between New Zealand universities and Chinese military institutions.
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs slam EU-China #CAI investment deal after arrest of over 50 Hong Kong activists. [THREAD]
Former Belgian Prime Minister and IPAC member @guyverhofstadt MEP says the EP will "never ratify" #CAI until human rights situation improves.
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先日BBCで報道されたウイグル自治区における人権弾圧の苛烈な実態。この報道を契機に、#IPAC として、国連主導の法的調査と緊急の集団政治行動を求める声明を出しました。賛同してくださったIPAC加盟の日本の国会議員はこちら↓ twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP seeks to bring Disney before UK Parliamentary committee to answer accusations of complicity in abuses against Uyghur Muslims while filming #Mulan. twitter.com/Nus_Ghani/stat…
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#IPAC 🇦🇺 member Andrew Hastie MP leads parliamentary inquiry investigating foreign interference in Australian universities.
Concerns around the pressure put on academic freedoms by the Chinese government are expected to feature prominently.
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"No religion is immune: Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and others have all been targeted."
#IPAC 🇦🇺 member @kevinandrewsmp writes on the Chinese Communist Party's repression of religious freedoms.
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani lead 60 Diet members in a cross party statement of support for Japan to adopt a Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions regime. twitter.com/AkiraIgata/sta…
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 co-chairs Sen. @rampi and Sen. @LucioMalan join a cross party urgent appeal to the Italian government.
The parliamentarians called for the prioritisation of arrested Hong Kong activists and expelled lawmakers in bilateral and multilateral relations with China. twitter.com/GlobalCRL/stat…
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We must stand up to China’s ‘repulsive’ persecution of the Uyghurs | #IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS writes for @politicshome.
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UK government enacts #IPAC 🇬🇧 recommendations on imports linked to Xinjiang forced labour supply chains, but fails to address calls for High Court genocide determination judgements backed by #NoGenocideTrade campaign.
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#IPAC co-chair 🇪🇺 Lexmann warns the EU against ignoring the human rights implications of the EU-China #CAI investment deal:
"The EU cannot reward bad behaviour, nor can we afford to compartmentalise our policies and instruments."
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Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chair @AndreGattolin on Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to France.
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“It is about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.”
#IPAC 🇩🇪 member @GydeJ MdB on an interior ministry report on Chinese state intimidation of activists in Germany.
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#IPAC advisor and former UK PM Chief of Staff @NJ_Timothy writes in the @Telegraph calling for a global coalition of democracies to counter the Chinese Communist Party's growing threat.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL among supporters of an amendment proposing traceability requirements for imported human tissue.
The move would help prevent complicity in suspected forced organ harvesting in China, targeting Falun Gong, Uyghurs and others.
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#IPAC submitted evidence to the UK Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into Xinjiang detention camps.
Recommendations made include legal determinations on suspected Uyghur genocide and a ban on goods linked to Xinjiang forced labour.
Full submission here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani present IPAC statement on reports of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang prison camps to Cllr. Adachi Masashi, economic and political advisor to the Japanese Prime Minister. twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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As Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen visits the Vatican, #IPAC 🇮🇹 members from six parties rally in support of religious minorities in China.
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 members Rep. @ShioriYamao, Rep. Gen Nakatani and Sen. @yamazogaikuzo lead #JPAC delegation meeting with Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato.
The legislators highlighted the sentencing of Hong Kong activists and pressed for a Japanese Magnitsky human rights sanctions regime. twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of Europe isn’t quite going according to plan."
#IPAC advisor @benedictrogers writes for @appledaily_hk
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani: UK businesses "must wake up" to China's Uighur cotton slaves.
Further coverage of #IPAC advisor @adrianzenz report on forced labour in the Xinjiang cotton industry.
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