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#IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs questioned @HSBC representatives over the bank's freezing of accounts belonging to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.
IPAC member @IoWBobSeely MP to HSBC: "Do you understand the difference between being ethical and being legal?"
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@HSBC @IoWBobSeely #IPAC member @RhonddaBryant MP:
"@HSBC chooses which laws to obey... quite a lot of my constituents might think you choose to adopt a moral stance when it suits you, but not when it doesn't."
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#IPAC member @Siobhain_Mc MP calls on UK financial regulators to exert influence on banks and financial institutions acting as a "prop" to totalitarian regimes.
McDonagh raises the case of Hong Kong pro-democrat activist @tedhuichifung, whose accounts have been frozen by @HSBC. twitter.com/Siobhain_Mc/st…
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"Canada must recognise and respond to this genocide."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MPs cites backing from Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and fellow IPAC co-chair @IrwinCotler in calling on Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau to recognise genocide against Uyghurs. 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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On the #IPAC Co-Chairs call last night:
👉Legislators from 14 parliaments on 4 continents
👉Former PM of Denmark and @NATO Sec Gen @AndersFoghR
👉The person who saw through the recent US Genocide determination @KelleyCurrie
#StandTogether
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Simon O'Connor MP criticises NZ-China trade deal as a "slap in the face" for Australia as it faces threats from Beijing.
"It suits the CCP to have a trade deal with New Zealand right now in order to increase pressure on Australia."
stuff.co.nz/national/polit…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani launch cross-party parliamentary group to establish a Japanese "Magnitsky Act" to sanction individuals and organisations involved in human rights abuses.
mainichi.jp/english/articl…
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"If the UK does not stand up for victims of genocide, then I want to know what it will ever stand up for again."
#IPAC co-chair @MPIainDS writes in the @SundayGuardian
sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/uk-not…
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MPs must back the genocide amendment to oppose the oppression of the Uighurs | Times Red Box
IPAC advisor @benedictrogers and @LabourCHR chair @MatthewCTurner write in support of IPAC #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill.
thetimes.co.uk/article/mps-mu…
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"When it comes to CAI, the EU has yet again placed trade over upholding its values and protecting human rights."
The EU’s dispute with South Korea shows why CAI is unacceptable | @hk_watch
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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"No one can seriously believe that the Chinese Communist Party is about to refer itself to the International Criminal Court for examination of potential genocide."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL explains why the all-party #GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill is needed.
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#BREAKING IPAC #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill passes the House of Lords by 359 votes to 188 with overwhelming cross-party support.
If passed in the House of Commons, the Amendment could see Uyghur genocide cases considered in UK High Courts. twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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#BREAKING: IPAC responds to BBC reports of systemic torture and sexual abuse of in Xinjiang prison camps.
IPAC calls on our governments to pursue urgent investigations into allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in the region.
Full statement 👇
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Full story: Women in China's "re-education" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured (BBC News).
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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Japanese parliamentarians from #JPAC join IPAC statement on reports of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang prison camps.
Full story: bbc.com/news/world-asi… twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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“The weight of evidence steadily coming out of the region leaves no room for doubt as to the oppression Uighurs and other ethnic minorities are living under”
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @kimbakit on reports of systemic torture and rape in Xinjiang prison camps.
smh.com.au/world/asia/hor…
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#GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill tabled by #IPAC member @DavidAltonHL defeats government in the Lords.
IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Kennedy: the amendment will "change the ecology of law by making genocide have serious meaning in our contemporary world”.
theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/0…
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"Xi knows what is happening. Xi is responsible. But will he ever see repercussions?"
The truth about China’s genocide against the Uighurs | the Spectator
spectator.us/topic/truth-ab…
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Some witnesses too afraid of Chinese authorities to give evidence at Australian inquiry | the Guardian
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair Sen. @kimbakit highlights intimidation from the Chinese Communist Party experienced by Australian Chinese and other diasporic groups.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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UK regulator revokes Chinese state media outlet China Global Television Network's (CGTN) license after concluding that the network is "ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party", contravening UK broadcasting law. twitter.com/Ofcom/status/1…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP presents survivor's testimony of torture and rape in Xinjiang prison camps to the UK Parliament.
Ghani calls for no further deepening of ties with the Chinese government until a full judicial inquiry into crimes against Uyghurs has been concluded.
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Shadow Minister for Asia and the Pacific @SKinnock calls on the Government to back IPAC all-party #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill, allowing UK courts to rule on genocide and opening a route for justice for Uyghurs and other groups.
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China's punitive sanctions lead to Australian wine producers finding new markets.
Last year #IPAC urged consumers to buy Australian wine in #SolidarityWithAustralia
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @JanetDaby MP on UK government inaction after reports of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang prison camps:
"What exactly are they waiting for China to do before they take action?" twitter.com/JanetDaby/stat…
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