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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL calls for the UK government to instigate an asset audit of Chinese government officials Chen Quanguo and Carrie Lam following abuses in the Uyghur Region and Hong Kong.
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"It appears that it is now a crime in Hong Kong to remember the 1989 massacre".
#IPAC adviser @benedictrogers comments on the sentencing of activists taking part in the June 4th Tiananmen Square Vigil last year.
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#IPAC statement on the arrest of Cardinal Zen, Margaret Ng, Denise Ho and other members of the 612 Humanitarian Support Fund.
IPAC calls on our governments to sanction new Chief Executive John Lee and all others responsible for this violation of international law in Hong Kong.
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We applaud the work of #IPAC 🇩🇰 co-chairs @uffeelbaek and @Ammitzboell_K in securing the safe passage of Hong Kong activist @tedhuichifung to Denmark.
Hui faced potential life imprisonment. His exile is a reminder of the desperation facing HK citizens.
hongkongfp.com/2020/12/03/bre…
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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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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @IrwinCotler calls for Canada to strengthen its Magnitsky sanctions scheme to ensure more perpetrators of human rights violations are held accountable for abuses.
policymagazine.ca/the-case-for-a…
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Coverage of #IPAC UK cross-party efforts to allow domestic courts to consider alleged genocide against #Uyghurs perpetrated by the Chinese state.
smh.com.au/world/asia/us-…
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BREAKING: Belgian Parliament declares Uyghurs at serious risk of Genocide.
The motion led by #IPAC 🇧🇪 co-chair @SamuelCogolati calls on the Belgian government to terminate its extradition agreement with China and to block ratification of the EU-China #CAI investment deal. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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BREAKING: Statement from #IPAC UK members after the Chinese government sanctions parliamentarians in response to action on Uyghur abuses.
We call on the government to urgently review attempts by the Chinese government to undermine free and open public debate.
Full statement👇
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani launch @JinkenGaikou.
The cross party group of 76 parliamentarians looks to develop Japan's human rights diplomacy, amidst calls for a Japanese 'Magnitsky' targeted human rights sanctions regime. twitter.com/JinkenGaikou/s…
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#IPAC member @hildevautmans with a strong call to Angela Merkel to review China strategy in light of events in Hong Kong.👇 twitter.com/hildevautmans/…
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Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause:
"Systemic competition with China is about dictatorship or democracy. International institutions and the universality of human rights must be defended more resolutely than before."
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BREAKING: #IPAC Statement on evidence of widespread Uyghur forced labour in global solar supply chains.
Xinjiang produces 45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon.
Democratic states must act to ensure supplies of critical green technologies are untainted by these abuses.
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Interview with #IPAC🇨🇭co-chair @FabianMolinaNR in the Luzerner Zeitung.
Molina notes how the common desire to defend democracy and the rule of law against the Chinese Communist Party has united parliamentarians across borders and across party lines.
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"The women of the Uyghur Muslim community are being persecuted as we speak".
#IPAC 🇬🇧 @JanetDaby MP calls for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Xinjiang during an #InternationalWomensDay debate in the UK Parliament.
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair Garnett Genuis MP addresses the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations.
@GarnettGenuis raised concerns of 'elite capture' and the attempts of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department to illegitimately influence democratic processes.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL: The UK government's attempts to build trade cooperation with China contradicts its claims that it will not pursue trade agreements with states accused of genocide.
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Asahi Shimbun interviews #IPAC advisor @AkiraIgata on #JPAC 🇯🇵 bipartisan efforts to introduce a Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions regime for Japan.
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Yesterday #IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @IrwinCotler gave evidence to a Parliamentary hearing on abuses against Muslim Uyghurs in #Xinjiang.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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‘Horror and torture’: Uighur woman reveals truth about China’s genocide | Sky News Australia
Featuring an exclusive interview with #IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima.
skynews.com.au/details/_62423…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex highlights Beijing's coercive diplomacy and calls for reduction in EU's strategic dependency on P.R. China.
Full interview with @ETtodaytw: youtube.com/watch?v=bS7asr…
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#IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause MdB calls for political leaders to not attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, to signal concern with the Chinese government's abuses of #Uyghurs and violations of international law. twitter.com/MargareteBause…
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#IPAC advisor @adrianzenz giving harrowing reports of forced labour and birth suppression of #Uyghurs in Xinjiang to @BBCNewsnight.
Forced labour and internment in 're-education camps' are attempts to "coercively re-engineer Uyghur society".
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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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"Canada must recognise and respond to this genocide."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MPs cites backing from Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and fellow IPAC co-chair @IrwinCotler in calling on Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau to recognise genocide against Uyghurs. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…