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Kazakh fleeing repression threatened with forced deportation back to China, where he could face torture and persecution.
He remains in custody in Ukraine, and will have his extradition case considered this week.
@MFA_Ukraine @DmytroKuleba
rfa.org/mandarin/yatai…
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"The Genocide Convention is about preventing atrocities, not waiting to count the bodies."
#IPAC co-chair Baroness Kennedy highlights the testimony of Uyghur women in building evidence for alleged genocide in Xinjiang.
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British, Lithuanian MPs: Defending Ukraine is defending Taiwan | CNA News
#IPAC 🇱🇹🇬🇧members @DSakaliene @ZygisPavilionis @MPIainDS @DavidAltonHL @GeraintDaviesMP call for stronger committment to Taiwan in face of rising threats from Beijing.
cna.com.tw/news/aall/2022…
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US electronics firm struck deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers | Reuters
U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc. employs hundreds of Uyghurs as part of state backed coercive labour transfer programmes.
reuters.com/world/china/ex…
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#IPAC member @imranahmadkhan MP: What actions are the UK Government taking to hold the Chinese government to account for its breaching of the Sino-British Joint Declaration?
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Energy crisis: Government has domestic nuclear option as China is frozen out | Sky News
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS: dependency on China for critical infrastructure exposes UK to Chinese government's "bullying" behaviour.
news.sky.com/story/energy-c…
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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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Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over wellbeing persist | The Guardian
Claim contradicts Chinese tennis player’s social media post in which she accused senior party figure of coercing her into sex.
theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec…
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Senior PRC public security official enters INTERPOL | Le Monde
#IPAC: Hu's election puts "tens of thousands of Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Taiwanese and Chinese dissidents living abroad at even graver risk" @AndreGattolin.
lemonde.fr/international/…
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Italian newspaper @repubblica reports on #IPAC campaign by parliamentarians from 19 countries inviting "millions of people around the world to a Christmas toast against China's economic bullying of Australia" with Australian #FreedomWine.
repubblica.it/esteri/2020/12…
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France probes fashion retailers for concealing 'crimes against humanity' in Xinjiang | Reuters
Four major international fashion brands alleged to use Xinjiang supply chains tainted by Uyghur forced labour.
reuters.com/world/china/fr…
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International lawmakers support Taiwan bid to join INTERPOL | RTI
#IPAC members among parliamentarians calling for Taiwan to play a role in the global policing body.
en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2…
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Chinese government's aggressive efforts to bring back fugitives grow more brazen | Washington Post
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti: "we should not extradite individuals into such an authoritarian system"
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/…
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Czech Senate passes resolution backing Taiwan's participation in WHO | Focus Taiwan
Coverage of motion led by #IPAC 🇨🇿 Co-Chair Senator @PavelFischer.
focustaiwan.tw/politics/20210…
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Canada to ban Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks | BBC
The moves against the two Chinese military linked tech companies are designed to protect the safety and security of Canada's critical infrastructure.
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
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📢BREAKING: #IPAC statement on the 23rd EU-China Summit 🇪🇺🇨🇳 signed by EU legislators.
IPAC calls on @eucopresident @vonderleyen @JosepBorrellF to make clear to PRC counterparts that its purported neutrality on #Ukraine gives Putin a carte blanche to escalate his barbaric acts.
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Meanwhile Lithuanian Co-Chair @DSakaliene reads #IPAC statement on #HongKong to the Lithuanian Parliament also representing fellow Co-Chair @Adomenas. #StandTogether
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Royals and senior ministers set to snub Beijing Winter Olympics as Britain’s stance towards PRC hardens | The Sun
Growing momentum behind #IPAC calls for diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Olympics.
#NoRightsNoShow
thesun.co.uk/news/16791605/…
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Lawmakers Urge UN Investigation Into Xinjiang | RFA
Coverage of #IPAC calls for UN to investigate alleged Genocide against Uyghurs.
#IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause: "there can be no turning away from the mounting evidence that documents these abuses"
rfa.org/english/news/u…
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Australia could join international sanctions against the Chinese government if it helps arm Russia | The Guardian
Concerns grow after Russia reported to have requested military and economic support from the Chinese government.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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The Australian: PM shoulders arms to China
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UK universities have accepted more than £13 million from Chinese state run Confucius Institute programme | The Times
#IPAC member @StewartMcDonald warns the Chinese government directed programmes are 'misinformation networks operating in plain sight'.
thetimes.co.uk/article/china-…
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