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Beijing Winter Olympics sponsors pressured over China’s ‘appalling human rights record’ | Financial Times
Coverage of calls from #IPAC 🇺🇸 members @RepMalinowski @RepGallagher to relocate the #Beijing2022 Olympics in light of severe human rights abuses.
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British MP calls for relaxation of BNO visas to benefit frontline Hong Kong protesters born after 1997 | RFA
Cross-party amendment led by #IPAC member @DamianGreen would plug gap in BN(O) visa scheme that excludes young Hong Kongers.
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#BREAKING: #IPAC calls on Ukraine 🇺🇦 President @ZelenskyyUa to block the deportation of Kazakh asylum seeker Yilisen Aierken (Аєркен Їлісен).
Those forcibly returned to the PRC are at severe risk of persecution, arbitrary detention and torture.
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UK MPs cross-party amendment seeks to fulfil 'moral obligation’ to Hong Kong citizens born after 1997 who cannot benefit from BN(O) resettlement programme.
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MPs table plans to permit children of Hong Kong BNO citizens to apply for UK visas | Politics UK
Cross-party MPs have backed an amendment to allow young Hong Kongers with a British national (overseas) parent to apply for a BNO visa.
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Japan PM Kishida set to appoint #IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chair Rep. Gen Nakatani as chief human rights aide.
Rep. Nakatani has led cross-party calls for Japan to establish a Magnitsky-style targeted human rights sanctions regime.
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"I believe that the European Union, probably for the first time in decades, is now understanding more and more how dangerous the PRC government is."
@DSakaliene 🇱🇹 speaks to Axios on #IPAC support for Taiwan🇹🇼
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Zhang Zhan: US asks China to free jailed Wuhan citizen journalist | BBC
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#IPAC 🇸🇪 co-chair @IsaLann1 calls on democratic states to "take off the silk gloves" and take a tougher stance against the Chinese Communist Party, speaking to the Jönköpings-Posten.
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Soviet-Era Memories Shape European Lawmakers’ View of China and Taiwan | VOA
#IPAC co-chairs @MiriamMLex 🇸🇰 @PavelFischer 🇨🇿 @DSakaliene 🇱🇹 speak to VOA on calls to support Taiwan at #IPACRome #G20 conference.
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"Tibetans can no longer flee China"
@SikyongPTsering speaks to Le Temps following address to #IPACRome #G20 conference.
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Beijing's repression against Uyghurs becomes clear | LRT
#IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene speaks to LRT on the mass imprisonment and forced labour abuses in the Uyghur Region.
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The PRC government is carrying out a global campaign of intimidation against all who dare criticise its authoritarian rule.
Legislators from 20+ countries have signed the #IPAC pledge to advocate on behalf of those facing extradition to the PRC.
#DoNotExtradite
#StandTogether
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Taiwan's Wu urges partners to step up South China Sea presence | Nikkei Asia
Wu says Taiwan is at 'the front line of democracy' in address to #IPACRome #G20 Conference.
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.@nathanlawkc calls on G20 states to hold the PRC Government for violations of international law on Hong Kong.
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Parliamentary alliance demanding tougher stance on Beijing meets in Rome | Le Monde
Coverage of #IPACRome #G20 conference.
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Do not give the Chinese government a free pass on human rights | South China Morning Post
#IPAC Legislators from 14 countries joined by political exiles to demand that the G20 hold the PRC Government to account for abuses at the #IPACRome conference.
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#IPAC launches #DoNotExtradite campaign, pledging to advocate on behalf of all those threatened with extradition or deportation to the PRC.
Cards have been issued to those most at risk of persecution to offer protection to their case.
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"A regime that is allowed to commit genocide and violate international agreements with impunity is a regime that will be emboldened."
@nathanlawkc and @MahmutRahima write for The Diplomat on the #IPACRome Conference priorities ahead of the #G20.
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.@Billbrowder joins IPAC co-chairs and guests to launch the global Magnitsky Campaign.
Governments around the globe are being asked to implement targeted sanction programmes against the gravest human rights abusers.
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Reuters | Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu @MOFA_Taiwan urges 'freedom-loving countries' to work in collaboration against the rising threat of the People's Republic of China.
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