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#BREAKING: UK Parliament unanimously passes a motion calling for a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
The motion led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton calls for UK government representatives to decline invitations to the Games.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton MP moves motion calling for UK government representatives to stage a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Olympics.
Loughton: Only a diplomatic boycott will stop the Chinese Communist Party from scoring "the major soft power victory they crave."
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U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China's Xinjiang | BBC
Legislation led by #IPAC 🇺🇸 members @SenJeffMerkley and @SenRubioPress would force all producers to prove Xinjiang supply chains are free from Uyghur forced labour.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 members set to feature in three key debates in the Commons today:
1⃣ Urgent Question on Chinese takeover of UK semiconductor manufacturer
2⃣ Presentation of @timloughton MP's Tibet Reciprocal Access Bill
3⃣ Motion for a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Olympics
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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 🇩🇪 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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Response on behalf of French President @EmmanuelMacron to #IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chair Senator @AndreGattolin on calls for the G7 to address Uyghur forced labour in supply chains.
Strzoda: G7 "unambiguous" on criticism of Chinese government abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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China’s cotton trade: Boycotts give hope to Uighurs but companies take a hit | Irish Times
#IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chair Senator @malcolmbyrne calls on clothing manufacturers to ensure supply chains are free of forced labour abuses against Uyghurs.
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP and @Billbrowder drive efforts to build New Zealand's 'Magnitsky' human rights sanctions regime.
Wall: democratic countries increasingly "all on the same page" on targeting human rights abusers.
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Belgian Parliament formally votes to declare Uyghurs at "serious risk of Genocide" and victims of Crimes Against Humanity.
#IPAC co-chair @SamuelCogolati has called on the 🇧🇪 Government to fulfil obligations under the Genocide Convention and act to prevent further atrocities. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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HSBC boss Mark Tucker accused of attack on democracy over Hong Kong | The Times
#IPAC members @MPIainDS 🇬🇧 and @uffeelbaek 🇩🇰 call on @HSBC to release frozen assets of pro-democracy activists and explain reports of refusal to recognise #BNO passports.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @hildevautmans:
"China has killed democracy in Hong Kong and Xi Jinping has made it very clear that Taiwan is the next station."
"A China that tramples on human rights cannot be a close partner to the EU."
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @fxbellamy praises the courage of journalists at Hong Kong newspaper #AppleDaily, forced to close after being targeted under the National Security Law.
"The Chinese Communist Party is methodically dismantling any democratic opposition to its totalitarian project."
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@MiriamMLex @hk_watch #IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @AnnaFotyga_PE:
EU and EU Member State diplomats must decline invitations to attend events at the #Beijing2022 Olympics in Beijing.
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#BREAKING: EU Parliament passes joint resolution on Hong Kong, calling for:
👉Sanctions on HK officials
👉Termination of extradition treaties with China
👉 Diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Olympics
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex: "the free world cannot stand by"
@hk_watch
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UK should push companies to boycott Beijing Olympics over labour abuses, MPs say | Politico
#IPAC co-ordinator @lukedepulford: UK lacks import controls to prevent goods from the Uyghur region entering the market.
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Boris Johnson orders review of Beijing takeover of British tech company | SMH
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chairs @kimbakit, @SenPaterson:
“In some countries, like China, there are really no strictly private companies immune from state direction"
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Coverage of #IPAC campaign for @HSBC to release assets of Ted Hui and other Hong Kong activists charged under the city's National 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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Awesome #IPAC network making progress.
👉EU and UK will debate @Beijing2022 diplo boycott on the SAME DAY (thanks @EnginEroglu_FW)
👉UK motion will be taken to a vote. 👉And here’s @timloughton asking Boris about it an hour ago. twitter.com/fbermingham/st…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 @timloughton MP urges Prime Minister @BorisJohnson to back a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Loughton calls for an end to the "denial of human rights violations and genocides in Xinjiang and Tibet."
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 Co-Chair Louisa Wall MP leads cross party calls for New Zealand to take a stronger stance on the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners.
Wall raised concerns of forced organ harvesting from political prisoners.
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Growing cross party support for #IPAC calls for a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Next week the House of Commons will debate a motion led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton calling on UK officials to refuse invitations to the games.
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Growing cross party support for #IPAC calls for a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Next week the House of Commons will debate a motion led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton calling on UK officials to refuse invitations to the games.
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#IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chair Senator @malcolmbyrne welcomes announcement that the Irish government will not send representatives to the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Byrne calls for Ireland to push for a relocation of the Games so long as gross human rights abuses in China continue. twitter.com/malcolmbyrne/s…