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"If Lithuania dares to stand up for our common democratic values even when dictatorships threaten and hate, we should be able to do the same."
#IPAC 🇸🇪 co-chair @JoarForssell calls for Sweden to deepen its diplomatic cooperation with Taiwan.
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EU puts massive China investment deal on hold | Radio France Internationale
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause.
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‘There’s a duty to confront evil’: the Irish politicians standing up to the Chinese Communist Party | Independent
Featuring interviews with #IPAC 🇮🇪 members @barrymward @malcolmbyrne @SenatorMcDowell @MlMcNamaraTD on the launch of IPAC Ireland.
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#BREAKING: Australia passes Magnitsky-style sanctions legislation.
The law allows for travel bans and asset freezes on abusers of human rights globally.
Congratulations to #IPAC 🇦🇺 members @SenPaterson @kimbakit @kevinandrewsmp and others for leading the campaign 👏👏 twitter.com/kimbakit/statu…
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing due to concerns over human rights abuses | BBC news
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#IPAC is calling for independent investigations into alleged mass atrocity crimes in Xinjiang. Thank you @GarnettGenuis @IrwinCotler and other IPAC members for your hard work on this 👏 twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima echoes IPAC calls for legal investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity after reports document state-run schemes to forcibly uproot and assimilate Uyghurs and other minority groups in the Xinjiang region.
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UK MPs call for more sanctions as report reveals China's 'cultural erasure' strategies in Tibet | The Telegraph
Coverage of #IPAC open letter led by @timloughton MP calling for action on Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Tibet.
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"Short of their proposed guided tour of the concentration camps, what evidence would they consider sufficient to recognise this genocide?"
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP urges the Canadian government to label China's treatment of Uyghurs as "genocide". twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP speaks at a UK Parliament debate commemorating #HolocaustRemembranceDay citing concerns of alleged genocide against #Uyghurs raised by Board of Deputies of British Jews.
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#IPAC member and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet @timloughton calls for reciprocal access to Tibet.
While Chinese officials enjoy broad access to the UK, British and international diplomats have been denied access to Tibet for years.
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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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Hong Kong: international companies reconsider future in wake of security law | The Guardian
Businesses reassess presence in territory amid curbs on movement and doubts about legal system’s reliability.
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Committee releases report on human rights abuses against Uyghurs, calls for a Government genocide declaration and supply chain reform. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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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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🇬🇧 Co-Chair @MPIainDS presses @RishiSunak on the treatment of Jimmy Lai, shortly after meeting with his son.
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