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Led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 Co-Chairs @LucioMalan & @rampi Italian MPs & MEPs strongly denounce Chinese sanctions imposed on colleagues.
“Intimidating measures hold no place in a global rule-of-law based order. We will not be silenced and stand firmly with our colleagues for human rights.”
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"This is another example of the Chinese state denying genocide, despite it being glaringly obvious that the Chinese Communist Party are orchestrating the systematic eradication of the Uyghur."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @imranahmadkhan MP questions UK Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP. twitter.com/imranahmadkhan…
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"Instead of a beacon of light and hope, today we have gone into the dark corridors of procedural purdah."
#IPAC UK co-chair @MPIainDS on government moves to block a vote on the IPAC backed #GenocideAmendment to the Trade Bill.
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Hong Kong’s Citizen News to close, amid fears for staff’s safety | Al Jazeera
Independent online outlet to close on Tuesday, citing fears for its staff and an increasingly hostile media environment.
aje.io/advpkt
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Czech parliament adopts a resolution labelling China and Russia as "threats to national security".
A motion led by #IPAC 🇨🇿 co-chair Sen. @PavelFischer will exclude Chinese state backed firms from taking part in Czechia's nuclear power expansion.
english.radio.cz/nuclear-option…
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Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns | Reuters
Phones sold in Europe by Xiaomi have built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet" and "Long live Taiwan independence", Lithuania's cybersecurity body says.
reuters.com/business/media…
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Cross-party group of IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs leading support for #GenocideAmendment to the Trade Bill.
If passed, the UK would be the first country globally to consider genocide cases in domestic courts.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
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Growing calls for Australia to impose diplomatic boycott on 2022 Beijing Olympics | SBS News
Coverage of #IPAC actions across 11 parliaments calling for leaders to decline invitations to attend the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
sbs.com.au/news/growing-c…
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China builds advanced weapons systems with American technology | Washington Post
"...a prime example of how China is quietly harnessing civilian technologies for strategic military purposes — with the help of American technology"
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall MP calls for New Zealand to stage a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Wall: International Olympics Committee cannot "turn a blind eye to industrial scale human rights abuses."
newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
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IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima speaks to ITV about human rights abuses in China with 100 days to go until the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics begin. itv.com/news/2021-10-2…
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇬🇧 members call on UK PM @BorisJohnson to lead action on modern slavery in global supply chains ahead of #G7Summit.
The signatories call for the UK to blacklist firms failing to prove supply chains in the Xinjiang region are free from Uyghur forced labour.
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#JPAC statement on the Chinese government's undermining of Hong Kong's electoral system.
The statement calls for the Japanese government to provide protection to Hong Kongers fleeing persecution and act to implement Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions. twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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Dissidents face house arrest ahead of China’s ‘two sessions’: report | Apple Daily
hk.appledaily.com/news/20210301/…
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Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced over banned Tiananmen vigil | The Guardian
In her mitigation, Chow said:
“If those in power had wished to kill the movement with prosecution and imprisonment, they shall be sorely disappointed."
theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives evidence to the Belgian Parliament on human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
Baroness Kennedy calls on the Belgian Parliament to recognise Uyghurs as victims of a state perpetrated Genocide. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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BREAKING: IPAC 🇬🇧 #GenocideAmendment narrowly defeated by 319 votes to 308.
#IPAC members from all parties will now work to bring a revised amendment to be re-tabled in the House or Lords.
Full statement 👉ipac.global/uk-government-…
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Chinese hackers infiltrated India's power grid ahead of Mumbai blackout, says report | New York Times
nytimes.com/2021/02/28/us/…
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"We need to show the same resolve against Beijing as we have mustered against Moscow’s many crimes"
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS writes in the @Telegraph:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/2…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chair Rep. Gen Nakatani calls for Japan to ratify the Genocide Convention and implement a Magnitsky-style targeted sanctions regime as part of a renewed "human rights diplomacy".
axios.com/china-united-s…
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