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New Zealand agreed to visa contractor at ‘behest’ of Beijing police | The Globe and Mail
#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Simon O'Connor MP:
"Serious answers are now needed as to why demands by an organisation with links to the Public Security Bureau were accepted."
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UK university tells lecturers not to record classes about Hong Kong and China, citing security law risks | Hong Kong Free Press
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China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births in Xinjiang | New York Times
"In most of China, women are being urged to have more babies, to shore up a falling birth rate. But in Xinjiang, they are being forced to have fewer."
nytimes.com/2021/05/10/wor…
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"Beijing is trying to scare European politicians into silence."
Interview with #IPAC 🇩🇰 Co-Chair @uffeelbaek MP on Chinese government attempts to intimidate parliamentarians and activists abroad.
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Germany slams Hungary for blocking EU criticism of China on Hong Kong | Politico
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Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | Associated Press
"More than half the retweets [Ambassador] Liu got from June through January came from accounts that Twitter has suspended for violating the platform’s rules."
apnews.com/article/asia-p…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 Co-Chair @bueti:
EU-China #CAI investment deal requirement for European NGOs operating in China to be managed exclusively by Chinese citizens a "scandal".
tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/…
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Microsoft’s LinkedIn Accused by Noted China Critic of Censorship | Bloomberg
Move raises concerns over LinkedIn policies outside China.
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Drop in Xinjiang birth-rate largest in recent history: report | AP
The Uyghur Region had the sharpest known drop in birth rates of any territory in modern history, more extreme than declines during the Syrian civil war and Rwandan genocide.
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Japan Nonpartisan Association for Reconsidering Human Rights Diplomacy @JinkenGaikou holds second general meeting, led by #IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. Gen Nakatani and Rep. @ShioriYamao.
Watch below 👇 twitter.com/JinkenGaikou/s…
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BREAKING: #IPAC Statement on evidence of widespread Uyghur forced labour in global solar supply chains.
Xinjiang produces 45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon.
Democratic states must act to ensure supplies of critical green technologies are untainted by these abuses.
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP tables petition calling for a stronger response from the Canadian government to all human rights violations in China, highlights persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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National security law: Hong Kong authorities freeze assets of Apple Daily media tycoon Jimmy Lai | Hong Kong Free Press
Lai is currently serving a jail term over a peaceful, unauthorised protest in 2019.
hongkongfp.com/2021/05/14/nat…
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#IPAC 🇧🇪 and 🇮🇹 members @SamuelCogolati @ElsVanHoofcdenv @G_Dallemagne and @LucioMalan co-sign letter backing Taiwan to participate in the @WHO.
"we should not let any political doctrine stand in the way of a more comprehensive effort to fight the pandemic."
#LetTaiwanHelp twitter.com/_TheFormosaClu…
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German companies may have to withdraw from the Uyghur province under new Supply Chain Act | Süddeutsche Zeitung
#IPAC 🇩🇪 Co-Chair @MargareteBause:
"Every German company must now ask itself whether it wants to maintain business relations with Xinjiang"
sueddeutsche.de/politik/untern…
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai and 9 other democrats plead guilty over 2019 National Day protest | Hong Kong Free Press
Albert Ho says defendants are willing to sacrifice their freedom to encourage others to speak up.
hongkongfp.com/2021/05/17/hon…
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Today at 1700 CET the Bundestag Human Rights Committee will hear evidence of Genocide against Uyghurs.
Questions will be led by #IPAC 🇩🇪 members @GydeJ and @MargareteBause, with #IPAC advisers @adrianzenz and Eva Pils giving testimony.
Full details👇
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"It is time to call the horror by its name."
Radio France Internationale interview with #IPAC members @SamuelCogolati 🇧🇪 @AndreGattolin 🇫🇷 and @Nus_Ghani 🇬🇧 as the Belgian Parliament debates whether the state persecution of Uyghurs constitutes Genocide.
rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/fr…
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Belgian Parliament prepares to hear evidence of a Genocide against Uyghurs | Le Soir
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 Co-Chairs Louisa Wall MP and Simon O'Connor MP lead calls for transparency after targeting of China expert Professor Anne-Marie Bradyn by the University of Canterbury.
stuff.co.nz/national/polit…
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing due to concerns over human rights abuses | BBC news
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European Parliament to vote on freezing China deal | Politico
The EP is expected to pass a motion pushing to formally freeze the EU-China #CAI investment deal, after Beijing's sanctions on #IPAC members and EU lawmakers for speaking out on Uyghur abuses.
politico.eu/article/europe…
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Will Italy's police communications run on Chinese tech? | Formiche
"High risk vendors" Huawei and ZTE technology could serve next generation communications systems for the Italian State Police and NATO despite known security risks.
formiche.net/2021/05/will-i…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives evidence to the Belgian Parliament on human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
Baroness Kennedy calls on the Belgian Parliament to recognise Uyghurs as victims of a state perpetrated Genocide. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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Beijing has done irreparable damage to Hong Kong after freezing Lai's assets | CityAM
"The presumption of innocence undergirds Hong Kong’s legal system. The decision to take the assets of a man who has yet to be tried is a blow to the city’s rule of law"
cityam.com/beijing-has-do…
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