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Jimmy Lai: The Hong Kong billionaire's last interview as a free man | BBC
The owner of Hong Kong’s last opposition newspaper speaks out before being jailed for 12 months for participating in a peaceful protest in 2019.
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‘There’s a duty to confront evil’: the Irish politicians standing up to the Chinese Communist Party | Independent
Featuring interviews with #IPAC 🇮🇪 members @barrymward @malcolmbyrne @SenatorMcDowell @MlMcNamaraTD on the launch of IPAC Ireland.
independent.ie/world-news/asi…
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Companies criticize China's alleged treatment of Uyghur Muslims | CBS News
Featuring comment from #IPAC adviser @AkiraIgata on growing calls for Japan to develop a Magnitsky style targeted human rights sanctions regime.
cbsnews.com/video/companie…
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#IPAC 🇧🇪 co-chair @SamuelCogolati MP leads a resolution calling on the Belgian Parliament to recognise Chinese state persecution of Uyghurs as a Genocide.
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Huawei able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network: secret report | Sydney Morning Herald
Huawei staff both in the Netherlands and in China were able to eavesdrop on all mobile numbers on the KPN network, according to an internal company report from 2010.
smh.com.au/world/europe/h…
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Icelander Blacklisted by China: ‘Unacceptable,’ States Foreign Minister | Iceland Monitor
An Icelandic lawyer, Jónas Haraldsson, who has written articles critical of the Chinese government subject travel ban and asset freezes.
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL raises the case of sentenced Hong Kong activists Martin Lee, Margaret Ng and Jimmy Lai in the UK House of Lords.
Lord Alton urges the UK government to call out the Chinese government's violations of international law on Hong Kong at the UN.
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"Isn't it time to impose Magnitsky sanctions?"
#IPAC Co-Chair Baroness Helena Kennedy calls on the UK to act on Chinese and Hong Kong government officials responsible for "grave and repeated breaches of the Sino-British Joint Declaration."
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BREAKING: Report finds crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
A new report from @hrw finds the Chinese government has committed — and continues to commit — Crimes Against Humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim groups.
Key findings below [THREAD]
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New powers to kick out spies from hostile states as concerns mount over Russia and China | The Times
Foreign spies operating in Britain face being prosecuted and deported under new laws to protect the nation from hostile states.
thetimes.co.uk/article/new-po…
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‘Break their roots’: New report details Chinese authorities’ alleged torture, rape of Uighur women | Sydney Morning Herald
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @SenPaterson: Australia's lack of Magnitsky legislation a “gap in our sanctions framework that must be filled”.
smh.com.au/world/asia/bre…
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Will Europe recognize the Uyghur genocide? | Domani
Coverage of efforts led by #IPAC UK 🇬🇧 and Italy 🇮🇹members to secure parliamentary recognition of #UyghurGenocide.
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Japan accuses Chinese military hacker over cyberattacks | The Times
A computer systems engineer working for the People’s Liberation Army accused of hacking into as many as 200 Japanese companies and organisations, including the country’s space agency.
thetimes.co.uk/article/japan-…
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Italy's Foreign Affairs Committee set to debate motions led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 members declaring the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs to be a genocide.
Agenda: camera.it/leg18/1099?sha…
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“I don’t know if my children are dead or alive”: Uyghur parents share the anguish of being separated from their children | The Diplomat
thediplomat.com/2021/04/the-mi…
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Federal government tears up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China | The Guardian
Australia cancels two deals between Victoria and China under new foreign veto laws.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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#IPAC 🇩🇪 members @MargareteBause @GydeJ and Michael Brand will lead a public hearing in the Bundestag to debate whether the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghurs constitutes a Genocide.
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#IPAC members @Nus_Ghani 🇬🇧 and @SamuelCogolati 🇧🇪 meet to discuss efforts in the UK and Belgian parliaments to recognise the #UyghurGenocide. twitter.com/Nus_Ghani/stat…
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Today the Lithuanian Parliament will hear evidence on human rights abuses taking place in Xinjiang, led by #IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene.
The committee will also hear evidence from #IPAC members @bueti 🇪🇺 and @IrwinCotler 🇨🇦.
Watch live now: youtube.com/watch?v=2TBSOj…
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#IPAC UK MPs joined with Uyghur activists in a show of solidarity ahead of a vote to recognise the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs as a genocide.
Follow the debate live from 14.45 (BST): parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a…
@timloughton @MPIainDS @Nus_Ghani @MahmutRahima
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LIVE: #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani moves #UyghurGenocide motion:
“That this House believes that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are suffering Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.”
Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a…
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BREAKING: UK Parliament unanimously declares the Chinese government is committing a Genocide against Uyghurs.
The UK joins the US, Canada and the Netherlands in declaring a #UyghurGenocide.
This is the first time a genocide declaration has passed the UK Parliament unopposed. twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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#IPAC 🇱🇹 Co-Chair @DSakaliene:
"I come from a family of political prisoners and exiles - we will never forget the Soviet Communist regime and their Gulag system. Thus the sanctions and threats by the Chinese Communist regime do not scare us ...
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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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Hong Kong activists retreat as China-style justice comes to their city | Reuters
"Over the next four days, the defendants were subjected to more than 40 hours of hearings ... Ten were taken to hospital, some suffering from physical exhaustion."
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