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John Lee: enemy of democracy protesters is favourite to replace Carrie Lam | The Times
The leading candidate to be Hong Kong’s new chief executive is a security-minded career police officer who backed the brutal crackdown on democracy protests in 2019.
thetimes.co.uk/article/b702bb…
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Anonymous paper seeking to refute evidence for atrocities against Uyghurs receives strong criticism.
Featuring comment from #IPAC adviser @adrianzenz.
smh.com.au/world/asia/anu…
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#IPAC statement on new evidence of abuses by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
#IPAC calls for trade sanctions against the #XPCC and its corporate holdings, and for #Magnitsky sanctions against XPCC and PRC officials responsible for abuses in the Uyghur Region.
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#IPAC member and Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson @LaylaMoran MP asks the UK government to provide routes for young Hong Kong citizens without BN(O) passports to reside in the UK.
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China and Russia aggressively targeting Canadians, CSIS director warns | Global News
Reveals 'Operation Fox Hunt', the Chinese Communist Party’s scheme to silence opposition to its rule by using fear and intimidation against dissidents internationally.
globalnews.ca/news/7629494/c…
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 members @SenRubioPress and Sen. @ChrisCoons lead bipartisan resolution condemning human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
The resolution calls for international investigations into the abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government.
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Motion led by #IPAC 🇨🇿 Co-Chair Senator @PavelFischer calls on the Czech government to challenge the @WHO deadlock and invite #Taiwan to the World Health Assembly.
The proposal passed unanimously through the Czech Senate.
#LetTaiwanHelp #WHA
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Debate on #UyghurGenocide motion led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 member @PaoloFormentin1 MP postponed as political groupings continue negotiations. twitter.com/LauraHarth/sta…
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Who are the 10 European citizens China is sanctioning? | Quartz
#IPAC 🇪🇺 Parliamentarians @bueti @MiriamMLex @SamuelCogolati @DSakaliene targeted by retaliatory sanctions after EU action on Xinjiang abuses.
qz.com/1987722/who-ar…
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#BREAKING: European and Canadian MPs pile pressure on governments to follow lead of 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇱🇹 in staging a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Games.
#IPAC members have led letters in 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇪🇨🇦🇨🇭🇩🇰🇨🇿🇩🇪 parliaments calling for #NoRightNoShow
liberation.fr/international/…
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#IPAC members in 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 have written to their Moroccan Embassies raising the case of Uyghur asylym seeker #IdrisHassan.
Those extradited to the PRC could face torture and arbitrary detention.
#DoNotExtradite
@Marocdiplo_EN
Coverage 👇
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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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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"Today's vote must mark a turning point. No one can still deny the scale of the abuses taking place in the Xinjiang region"
#IPAC member @YasminQureshiMP speaks after UK Parliament declares the Chinese government is committing a genocide against Uyghurs.
edition.cnn.com/2021/04/22/wor…
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Global legislators back Lithuania, Taiwan against Beijing ‘bullying’ in video statement | LRT
#IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chair @malcolmbyrne:
“By bullying Lithuania, Beijing hopes to send a warning to democracies across the world.”
lrt.lt/en/news-in-eng…
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Families mark 1,000 days since China's detention of Canadians Spavor, Kovrig | CBC
Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Spavor, a businessman, were both detained in December 2018 in attempt by the Chinese government to exert pressure on Canada.
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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China could mount full scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, island’s defence minister says | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 co-chair Senator @LucioMalan gives address to the Taiwan National Day Celebration at the Taiwan Representative Office in Rome. twitter.com/TaiwanInItalia…
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UK government rips up solar contract linked to Uyghur slavery | The Times
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Afzal4Gorton calls for bans on imports of goods made with Uyghur forced labour after multimillion pound solar contract linked to Xinjiang abuses.
thetimes.co.uk/article/domini…
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China's treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab | the Guardian
Featuring comment from #IPAC coordinator @lukedepulford on the failure of announced changes to address HikVision and Huawei complicity in oppression of Xinjiang Uyghurs.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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#IPAC calls to reduce strategic dependency on China featuring prominently in Germany's CDU leadership election debates.
wsj.com/articles/even-… twitter.com/StuartKLau/sta…
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New report from @hk_watch finds UK, Canada and Australia state pension funds invest billions in firms complicit in the repression and surveillance of Uyghurs.
Alibaba, Tencent and others among firms favoured by Western pension and sovereign wealth funds.
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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EU-China investment deal lacks teeth on forced labour but could still be derailed | Taiwan News
#IPAC co-chairs Sen. @AndreGattolin 🇫🇷 and @bueti MEP 🇪🇺🇩🇪 call criticise signing of EU-China #CAI deal in light of China's "blatant human rights violations".
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4100036
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China’s Eastern Europe strategy gets the cold shoulder | Politico
politico.eu/article/china-…
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