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Chinese state media threatens to sanction countries that boycott the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics after #IPAC 🇬🇧 members @DavidAltonHL and @RhonddaBryant MP raised the issue in the UK Parliament.
theguardian.com/world/2021/feb…
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‘Painful farewell’: Hongkongers queue for hours to buy final Apple Daily edition | The Guardian
Million copies printed of last issue as journalists at newspaper that was forced to close mourn ‘historical moment’.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
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Apple Daily: Hong Kong sends 500 officers in pro-democracy paper raid | BBC
Police also arrested the editor-in-chief and four other executives at their homes.
This is the first time journalists have been arrested under the national security law.
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#IPAC coordinator @lukedepulford speaks to PRI @TheWorld on IPAC efforts to pursue legal judgements on suspected genocide against Uyghurs through the International Criminal Court and the UK parliament.
pri.org/stories/2020-1…
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Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
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"While the Uighurs are forcibly sterilised, their children brainwashed and tens of thousands enslaved, the UK is bending over backwards to secure more Chinese trade."
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP leads the Opposition in calling for the Canadian government to formally label the Chinese government's persecution of #Uyghurs a genocide.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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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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NEWS: To expose China’s secrecy, demand reciprocal access to Tibet.
Opinion article signed by #IPAC members @AndreGattolin @bobogiac @rglucks1 @Martijncda @LegaSve @timloughton @rampi and Michael Brand MdB.
ipac.global/news/to-expose…
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Featuring comments from #IPAC 🇬🇧 members @Nus_Ghani and @MPIainDS calling for Magnitsky sanctions on Chinese officials and support for IPAC #StopGenocideTrade amendment to UK Trade Bill.
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University of Hong Kong removes Tiananmen Massacre monument in dead of night | Hong Kong Free Press
The moves are the latest in efforts to erase Hong Kong's memories of the 1989 June 4th Beijing Tiananmen Square Massacre.
hongkongfp.com/2021/12/23/bre…
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Breaking: UK declares breach of Sino-British Joint Declaration over disqualification of Hong Kong legislators.
We call on the UK government to now act urgently to hold China to account for its violations of international law. twitter.com/DominicRaab/st…
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"Anyone who says that there is not enough evidence is simply too cowardly to look through the window of their computer screen."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP speaks in the Canadian Parliament in support of an opposition motion declaring a "genocide" in Xinjiang.
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"At the United Nations, Chinese authorities are trying to rewrite norms and manipulate existing procedures not only to minimise scrutiny of the Chinese government’s conduct, but also to achieve the same for all governments."
Report from @BrookingsInst.
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Many #IPAC members active in the @HouseofCommons today.
First, Former Defence Secretary @LiamFox pushes @DominicRaab on #IPAC's core goal on #HongKong - bringing forward plans to reduce strategic dependency.
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PM Boris Johnson’s China policy riddled with contradictions | Sunday Guardian
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant
MP writes on the UK government's #IntegratedReview strategy paper.
sundayguardianlive.com/world/integrat… via @SundayGuardian
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Coverage of interventions by #IPAC 🇬🇧 members @MPIainDS @LaylaMoran and @AlynSmith in the UK parliament yesterday.
All called for sanctions and other mechanisms to hold China to account for its breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong.
smh.com.au/world/europe/c…
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4⃣France 🇫🇷
@AndreGattolin, also an #IPAC co-chair, was prominent in the French media as Wang Yi visited Paris. He called on President Macron to take a tough line on Beijing's encroachment on freedoms in Hong Kong and excluding Huawei from 5G networks.
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Tomorrow the Italian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee will debate a resolution led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 member @PaoloFormentin1 declaring a #UyghurGenocide.
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Australian Ambassador to France thanks #IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chairs @AndreGattolin and @iflorennes92 for their #SolidarityWithAustralia 🇦🇺
Last month IPAC members from nine parliaments called on their governments to stand with Australia against intimidation from the Chinese government.
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2⃣The Netherlands 🇳🇱
#IPAC co-chair @Martijncda held a press conference with Omir Bekali, who gave a moving testimony of surviving Xinjiang's Uyghur prison camps.
Already, it was clear that Wang Yi's visit was not going to be as smooth as hoped.
sfchronicle.com/news/article/D…
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