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Yesterday #IPAC 🇸🇪 member @HHeldina addressed the Swedish parliament, highlighting security concerns around Chinese investment in national infrastructure.
The minister was questioned on the impact of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) on these concerns.
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Hong Kong teachers drop lessons on Tiananmen crackdown, fearing ‘red lines’ | South China Morning Post
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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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#IPAC 🇩🇪 member and Chair of the Bundestag Human Rights Committee @GydeJ MdB calls for the EU's new human rights sanctions regime to be used against those who have repressed political freedoms in Hong Kong.
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Johnson faces Commons defeat as rebels stand against China’s ‘genocide’ | Sunday Times
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL all-party amendment to the Trade Bill will be debated in the UK Parliament this week.
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Hong Kong passes immigration bill, raising alarm over 'exit bans' | Reuters
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Holocaust survivors urge Boris Johnson to stand up for Uighurs as genocide law fight resumes | Politico
#GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL returns to the House of Lords today.
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New Zealand joins #IPAC with Co-Chairs Simon O'Connor MP and Louisa Wall MP.
All Five Eyes alliance nations are now represented within IPAC.
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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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#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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Beijing’s top office in Hong Kong ratchets up attack on Bar Association chief Paul Harris, denouncing him as an ‘anti-China politician’ | SCMP
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 members lead calls for trade deals to be conditional on legal determinations of genocide claims, with reference to abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 members @YasminQureshiMP and @amcarmichaelMP call for use of Magnitsky sanctions for those those responsible for the mass atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China.
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First person arrested under Australia's foreign interference laws | ABC
Mr Duong had been linked with organisations affiliated with the United Front Work Department, the Chinese Communist Party's overseas influence arm.
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“All five categories of genocide behaviour, according to the Genocide Convention, are already in play in Xinjiang province."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant MP urges the British Olympics Association to call for a #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics venue change.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid | Reuters
Police send 200 officers to raid Stand News and arrest seven on "seditious publications" offences.
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China’s Huawei tested A.I. software that could identify Uighur Muslims and alert police | CNBC
As part of the trial, a feature called “Uyghur alert” was tested.
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.@benedictrogers, adviser to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, said: "This illustrates the absolutely urgent need to reduce our strategic dependency on China in certain critical sectors such as PPE, and diversify our supply chains more generally."
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EU moves closer to sanctions for human rights violations in 6 countries | Politico
#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs have repeatedly called on the EU to implement sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis questioned by IPAC 🇮🇹 member @PaoloFormentin1 on the EU-China CAI investment deal.
Formentini criticised the CAI deal's weak language on forced labour in Xinjiang and called for greater transatlantic cooperation.
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Why Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square vigil will be different this year | The Spectator
"The organisers of last year’s vigil are in jail. This year’s vigil has been banned. And anyone who attends has been threatened with up to five years in prison."
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BREAKING: IPAC co-chairs call on G7 leaders to reform global supply chains in light of widespread forced labour abuses in the Uyghur Region.
Parliamentarians from 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 call for supply chain transparency and bans on forced labour imports ahead of #G7Cornwall Summit.
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