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#IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chair @SenRubioPress gives support to Lithuanian President @GitanasNauseda after Chinese government issues threats following opening of Taiwanese Representative Office.
Rubio: Only the Taiwanese people can determine how they would like others to refer to them. twitter.com/SenRubioPress/…
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⛷️8⃣0⃣ days away from the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics, #IPAC continues to call for a diplomatic boycott of the Games.
While sport is above politics, this cannot permit turning a blind eye to industrial-scale human rights abuses.
#NoRightsNoShow
🧵#IPAC campaign so far👇
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⛷️8⃣0⃣ days away from the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics, #IPAC continues to call for a diplomatic boycott of the Games.
While sport is above politics, this cannot permit turning a blind eye to industrial-scale human rights abuses.
#NoRightsNoShow
🧵#IPAC campaign so far👇
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On the #IPAC Co-Chairs call last night:
👉Legislators from 14 parliaments on 4 continents
👉Former PM of Denmark and @NATO Sec Gen @AndersFoghR
👉The person who saw through the recent US Genocide determination @KelleyCurrie
#StandTogether
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Boris Johnson ponders boycott of China’s Winter Olympics | The Times
#IPAC MPs lead calls for UK to stage diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Olympics.
#NoRightsNoShow
thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
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#BREAKING: UK Foreign Secretary supports the withdrawal of serving UK judges from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
The annoucement came moments before a debate in the Commons led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 members @MPIainDS @Siobhain_Mc on the issue.
gov.uk/government/new…
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#IPAC member @timloughton MP calls for the UK to follow the US in passing a 'reciprocal access' bill, prohibiting Chinese officials from travelling to the UK if China continues to deny access to Xinjiang and Tibet for international human rights inspectors.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chairs @MPIainDS and Baroness (Helena) Kennedy address UK Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab.
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In a debate on the UK's #magnitskysanctions on human rights abuses and corruption, #IPAC Co-Chair @MPIainDS asked the UK government why it is lagging behind allies when it comes to sanctioning human rights abusers in China, Hong Kong and the region.
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#IPAC members @DavidAltonHL @Nus_Ghani @MPIainDS hold press conference following @TribunalUyghur conclusion that the PRC government is committing Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Torture against the Uyghur people.
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Overseas judges in Hong Kong were “no longer acting as a moderating force, as the government has claimed, but giving a false sense of legitimacy to the Hong Kong government”.
Comment from #IPAC Hong Kong campaigns coordinator @chungchingkwong.
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
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"In Burma, the illegal regime, authors of atrocity crimes ... strut with impunity, aided and abetted by their authoritarian friends in Beijing."
#IPAC member @DavidAltonHL calls on the UK to seek reform to UN Security Council vetoes on mass atrocity crime investigations.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Afzal4Gorton MP calls on UK government to act to protect the 3,500 Uyghurs in Afghanistan, at risk of persecution and deportation to China. twitter.com/Afzal4Gorton/s…
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#IPAC 🇳🇴 co-chair @gurimelby MP asks Norway's Minister of Culture @Trettebergstuen to back a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
#Beijing2022 risks the Chinese government "laundering its own human rights violations".
#NoRightsNoShow
stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-pu…
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As INTERPOL meets for its 89th General Assembly, Uyghur activist #IdrisHasan continues to fight extradition to P.R. China following a since cancelled INTERPOL Red Notice request.
#IPAC has called on Morocco to release Hasan, who could face torture if extradited. twitter.com/SafeguardDefen…
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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 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL secures Private Notice Question on reports of mass internment and torture of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Lord Alton called on the UK to raise concerns at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council and to examine the findings of the @TribunalUyghur.
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#IPAC members from 20 countries have called on Saudi Arabia @KSAMOFA @KSAmofaEN to ensure Uyghurs are not deported to China, where they could face torture and arbitrary detention. twitter.com/SafeguardDefen…
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EU makes late bid to rival China on the Silk Road | Politico
Ursula von der Leyen to unveil €300 billion spending plan amid warnings of the Belt and Road's 'debt traps' and 'data traps'.
Comment from #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti
politico.eu/article/eu-mak…
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Heading to #Rome for #IPAC later this week! Looking forward to meeting my colleagues around the world. twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…