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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani launch @JinkenGaikou.
The cross party group of 76 parliamentarians looks to develop Japan's human rights diplomacy, amidst calls for a Japanese 'Magnitsky' targeted human rights sanctions regime. twitter.com/JinkenGaikou/s…
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chair @SenatorMenendez announces major bi-partisan China legislation.
The Bill calls for the US to take a leading role in international organizations and for a values driven approach to abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
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Under pressure over Xinjiang, China takes aim at overseas Uyghurs, academics | Reuters reuters.com/article/us-chi…
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Scottish schools face calls to remove Chinese government “propaganda” from their classrooms, amid ongoing co-operation with Confucius Institutes programmes.
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Chinese Government encourages citizens to report critics via new 'snitch hotline' ahead of 100th birthday | The Telegraph
People told to watch out for anyone who defames the ruling Communist Party or its leaders.
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Canada urged to do more to help people in Hong Kong | Al Jazeera
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair @SenPaterson speaks out against anti-Asian racism:
It is "morally abhorrent" to blame the Chinese people for the actions of the Chinese Communist Party.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs @MiriamMLex @AnnaFotyga_PE @RihoTerras lead cross-party letter supporting trans-Atlantic cooperation on telecommunications development in Central and Eastern Europe.
The signatories call for alternatives to China's 5G technology, citing security concerns. twitter.com/MiriamMLex/sta…
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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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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton MP secures debate on Chinese government sanctions on UK citizens, says sanctions are a "badge of honour" for speaking out on Uyghur abuses.
"We sanctioned parliamentarians have been fortified to call out the abuses of this totalitarian government."
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Biden Secretary Of State Condemns China’s ‘Acts Of Genocide' Against Muslim Uyghurs, calls for supply chain reform in light of forced labour abuses | Forbes
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chair Rep. Gen Nakatani calls for Japan to ratify the Genocide Convention and implement a Magnitsky-style targeted sanctions regime as part of a renewed "human rights diplomacy".
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Urging people to spoil or cast blank ballots in elections to become a crime in Hong Kong | HKFP
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“We want to work with and support the 1.2 million Chinese descendants who live in Australia and make them feel fully and equally participants of our democracy."
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @SenPaterson on efforts to counter anti-Chinese racism.
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"Talking about crimes against humanity no longer does justice to the gravity and scale of human rights abuses against Uyghurs."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @EnginEroglu_FW speaks to Formiche as the Italian parliament debates a #UyghurGenocide motion.
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UK Parliament to vote on declaration of genocide in Xinjiang province | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
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Over 20+ #IPAC 🇬🇧 members join one hundred MPs and Peers in calling on @BorisJohnson to issue sanctions on Hong Kong officials responsible for the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Signatories also back sanctions on Chen Quanguo, Party Secretary of the XUAR. twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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Belizean national Lee Henley Hu Xiang charged with financing 'anti-China' forces in the US following arrest in Guangzhou.
The case reflects new extraterritorial provisions in China's Criminal Law, echoing aspects of Hong Kong's National Security Law.
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EU set to ban 'high risk' artificial intelligence technologies widely used in Chinese state digital surveillance systems | Politico
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 members @SenRubioPress and @ChrisCoons lead bi-partisan legislation expediting refugee applications from Uyghurs and other groups.
The Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act would grant Priority 2 refugee status to those fleeing Xinjiang.
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Cross-party parliamentary association on human rights diplomacy led by #IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani launches English website, link below 👇👇
@JinkenGaikou @Japan_pac twitter.com/JinkenGaikou/s…
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Over 20 #IPAC 🇬🇧 members among 100 MPs and peers urging UK PM @BorisJohnson to impose sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for the crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy campaigners.
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Hong Kong ‘Father of Democracy’ Martin Lee handed 2 year suspended jail sentence over peaceful 2019 demo | Hong Kong Free Press
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“What we see happening before our very eyes is the dismantling of freedom and democracy."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 member @SenatorHousakos condemns the sentencing of nine Hong Kong pro-democracy activists for taking part in a peaceful protest.
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Batches of 50 to 100 Uyghur workers are being advertised on the Chinese internet | Sky News
Uyghur people from Xinjiang working in other parts of China are subject to "political" checks and work under strict "half-military" style management.
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