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#IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause MdB calls for political leaders to not attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, to signal concern with the Chinese government's abuses of #Uyghurs and violations of international law. twitter.com/MargareteBause…
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.@nathanlawkc calls on G20 states to hold the PRC Government for violations of international law on Hong Kong.
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#IPAC advisor @adrianzenz giving harrowing reports of forced labour and birth suppression of #Uyghurs in Xinjiang to @BBCNewsnight.
Forced labour and internment in 're-education camps' are attempts to "coercively re-engineer Uyghur society".
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"The UK must act now to save Uighur lives from ethnic cleansing"
#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima writes in the Times in support of IPAC #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill.
thetimes.co.uk/article/the-uk…
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自從#IPAC 發起 #NOEXTRADITION 呼籲以來，以下國家已經暫停了對香港的逃犯移交協議:
英國 🇬🇧
澳大利亞 🇦🇺
加拿大 🇨🇦
美國 🇺🇸
新西蘭 🇳🇿
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"Canada must recognise and respond to this genocide."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MPs cites backing from Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and fellow IPAC co-chair @IrwinCotler in calling on Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau to recognise genocide against Uyghurs. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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“After arguing that ‘the strong should not bully the weak’, Xi should examine his own government’s threats and punitive sanctions levelled against Australia and other countries that have dared to criticise his authoritarian regime.”
smh.com.au/world/europe/x…
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Yesterday #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Tom_Randall MP secured a debate in the UK Parliament on human rights in Hong Kong, raising the case of Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee and others imprisoned.
👇Thread of contributions by #IPAC members (with gratitude to @hk_watch).
twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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BREAKING: Belgium joins #IPAC, becoming the 19th legislature represented in our alliance.
We welcome Rep. @SamuelCogolati (Ecolo) and Rep. @ElsVanHoofcdenv (CD&V) as our 🇧🇪 co-chairs.
ipac.global/team/
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Jewish figures condemn Uighur persecution | Al Jazeera
Prominent British Jews use #HolocaustMemorialDay to warn that China’s treatment of its minority Uighur population has chilling echoes of past genocides.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27…
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Britain should condemn China's attack on free press | The Times
thetimes.co.uk/article/britai…
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chair @SenRubioPress leads bi-partisan calls for 🇹🇼 participation in the WHO.
“Despite its indisputable accomplishments and contributions to global health, the WHO continues to exclude Taiwan from the WHA due to pressure from Beijing"
rubio.senate.gov/public/index.c…
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#LIVE NOW: #IPAC 🇯🇵 satellite @Japan_pac hold parliamentary meeting to protest the exclusion of opposition lawmakers from Hong Kong's Legislative Council.
Watch below 👇 twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani lead efforts to propose Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions legislation before the end of the parliamentary term.
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Australian politicians condemn “profoundly distressing” Uyghur detention camps in China | the Market Herald
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chairs Sen. @kimbakit and @SenPaterson.
themarketherald.com.au/australian-pol…
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'I fled Hong Kong for Britain and now China won't let me have my pension' | The Telegraph
Encroachment of Chinese power in Hong Kong is hitting BNO passport holders.
telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall MP speaks to @SkyNewsAust on our #SolidarityWithAustralia campaign.
"What binds us together is that we all believe in democracy, we work together to meet the challenges facing not only Australia, but all our countries."
skynews.com.au/details/_62144…
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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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Sky News Australia: Major leak 'lifts the lid' on the Chinese Communist Party.
skynews.com.au/details/_62159…
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BREAKING: EU suspends efforts to ratify China investment deal.
#IPAC 🇪🇺 members have made key contributions in highlighting human rights concerns in the #CAI agreement [THREAD]
hongkongfp.com/2021/05/04/bre…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 Lord @DavidAltonHL calls for the UK to exclude perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity from new and continuity trade deals, referencing human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
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