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Belgium, Czech Republic Legislatures Pass Uyghur Genocide Declarations | RFA
#IPAC 🇧🇪 co-chair @SamuelCogolati MP: “There can be no ‘business as usual’ with China while the Uyghur prison camps stay open.”
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy raises the case of Hong Kong activist @tedhuichifung, whose family's bank accounts have been frozen by @HSBC:
"Beijing is co-opting banks and international companies which have strong links in Britain into supporting the security law."
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European Parliament to call for Beijing Olympic boycott | SCMP
Motion backed by #IPAC 🇪🇺 members @EnginEroglu_FW @bueti @MiriamMLex @AnnaFotyga_PE calls for EU member states to stage diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Winter Games.
@hk_watch
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Chinese state media threatens academic @adrianzenz for report published with #IPAC on forced sterilisation and @ASPI_org for reports detailing the connection between Chinese big tech and anti-Muslim atrocities.
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Huawei row, O’Halloran detention threaten China’s relationship with Ireland | SCMP
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chairs Sen. @malcolmbyrne and Sen. @barrymward.
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#IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause MdB asks the German Federal Foreign Office what steps it has taken to address the "massive encroachment of press freedoms" in the forced shut down of #AppleDaily, Hong Kong's last remaining opposition newspaper.
Government response 👇
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#IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene MP leads a resolution in the Lithuanian Parliament condemning systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang's prison camps.
The resolution also calls for international investigations into alleged genocide against Uyghurs.
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New Zealand agreed to visa contractor at ‘behest’ of Beijing police | The Globe and Mail
#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Simon O'Connor MP:
"Serious answers are now needed as to why demands by an organisation with links to the Public Security Bureau were accepted."
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL raises concern at the takeover of the UK's largest semiconductor producer by Chinese owned firm Nexperia:
"What assessment has been made of the dependency of UK manufacturers on China for imports of critical technologies such as semiconductors?"
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 members @bueti @MiriamMLex @EnginEroglu_FW @DavidLega among MEPs taking part in a European Parliament vigil honouring the victims of the #June4th🕯️ Tiananmen Square Massacre. twitter.com/bueti/status/1…
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② When any single country suppresses freedom,freedom for the whole world is retracted.Hongkongners are not only trying to defend their own freedoms, but they are fighting for our freedoms at the same time.
#IPAC @ipacglobal
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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.
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#IPAC is delighted to be working with @hk_watch to campaign for #noextradition to Hong Kong. twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani are leading calls for Japan to offer safe refuge to Hong Kong citizens and commit to #NOEXTRADITION to Hong Kong. twitter.com/ShioriYamao/st…
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Amendment cracking down on imports of forced organ harvesting co-sponsored by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL passed by UK House of Lords.
Evidence shows religious minorities and prisoners of conscience are targeted for forced organ harvesting in China.
davidalton.net/2021/01/13/ame…
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @IrwinCotler on "clear and compelling" evidence for a genocide against #Uyghurs in Xinjiang and comparison to past genocides:
"these genocides were preventable. Nobody could say we did not know. We knew, and we did not act. Just as now we know and we must act." twitter.com/EvanSolomonSho…
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#IPAC member @RhonddaBryant MP:
Action on Xinjiang must be followed up by sanctions on officials responsible for Hong Kong crackdown, calls for Parliament to have a greater role in the Magnitsky human rights sanctions regime.
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Today the Canadian Parliament will vote on the #UyghurGenocide motion, receiving cross party backing from #IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chairs @GarnettGenuis MP and Hon. @IrwinCotler. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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Taiwan thanks global parliamentary alliance for support amid Chinese threat | Asia News International
Coverage of #IPAC campaign for solidarity with Lithuania and Taiwan following coercive diplomacy from Beijing.
aninews.in/news/world/asi…
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“It is a paradox that a state with a population of one billion chooses to intimidate a citizen of a tiny country instead of ending the illegal detention and torture of a million of its citizens"
#IPAC 🇱🇹co-chair @DSakaliene on being sanctioned by Beijing: baltictimes.com/china_slaps_sa…
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#BREAKING Chinese government announces sanctions on US and Canadian individuals after action on Uyghur abuses.
Targets include the Canadian Parliament's Sub-Committee on International Human Rights, of which #IPAC 🇨🇦 members @GarnettGenuis MP and @HMcPhersonMP are members.
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#IPAC member @RhonddaBryant MP links the Chinese government crackdown in Hong Kong with prison camps for Uyghur Muslims, forced sterilization of ethnic minorities and repression of religious freedoms in China.
"Communism today looks remarkably like fascism."
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EU Lawmakers Ignore China Protests, Seek Stronger Taiwan Ties | Newsweek
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti on Chinese government attempts to block report calling for deeper Taiwan-EU relations.
newsweek.com/eu-lawmakers-i…
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"We stand with you and will fight for your freedom."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS message to imprisoned Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
#FreeChinaHostages twitter.com/MPIainDS/statu…