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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👇
bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a1…
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Hong Kong’s Chow Hang-tung jailed in second Tiananmen vigil case | Al Jazeera
Activist sentenced to 15 months in prison for incitement for a banned vigil to commemorate those who died in Beijing’s crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/4/…
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Huawei row, O’Halloran detention threaten China’s relationship with Ireland | SCMP
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇮🇪 co-chairs Sen. @malcolmbyrne and Sen. @barrymward.
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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Urgent Question raised in the UK House of Lords on state sponsored forced labour in Xinjiang.
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy urges the UK to use 'Magnitsky' sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for abuses against Uyghurs.
"Inaction becomes complicity."
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#BREAKING: #IPAC co-chairs call on @UNHumanRights Chief @mbachelet to release long awaited report on violations against Uyghurs, before the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
As the world’s attention turns towards Beijing, the PRC government must be held to account for its actions.
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#IPAC 🇧🇪 Co-Chair @SamuelCogolati MP leads scrutiny of Chinese tech firm Alibaba's branch at Liege Airport, Belgium.
Under Chinese law Alibaba would have to pass sensitive data on Belgian citizens to servers in China, with access to security services.
lecho.be/economie-polit…
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#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima echoes IPAC calls for legal investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity after reports document state-run schemes to forcibly uproot and assimilate Uyghurs and other minority groups in the Xinjiang region.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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European Parliament EU-China 'friendship group' suspended after the group is labelled as a 'tool for Chinese propaganda' with undue influence from the Chinese government.
politico.eu/article/eu-chi…
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White House National Security Council @WHNSC joins IPAC calls to buy Australian wine in #SolidaritywithAustralia
#StandTogether twitter.com/WHNSC45/status…
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📣Tomorrow #IPAC 🇳🇴 co-chair @Trinesg will speak at a human rights demonstration hosted by @amnesty in Oslo.
The event will mark Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to Norway.
Full details below 👇
facebook.com/events/s/kina-…
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The G-7 Must Talk About 3 Urgent Asia Issues | The Diplomat
@benedictrogers writes on #IPAC calls for global supply chains reform in light of widespread Uyghur forced labour abuses.
thediplomat.com/2021/06/the-g-…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs @EnginEroglu_FW @bueti @MiriamMLex @AnnaFotyga_PE call on 10 EU member states to terminate extradition treaties with P.R. China.
These moves are vital to protecting Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans and the Chinese diaspora in Europe. twitter.com/EnginEroglu_FW…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 members @AnnaFotyga_PE MEP and @MiriamMLex MEP lead calls for sponsors to drop support for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on human rights concerns.
The signatories call on sponsors to "prevent the Chinse Communist Party from exploiting these games for their own gain." twitter.com/AnnaFotyga_PE/…
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Hong Kong proposes film censorship law to 'safeguard national security' | Reuters
New film censorship legislation signals a further shrinking of freedoms in Hong Kong.
reuters.com/world/china/ho…
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Australian MPs condemn China's Hong Kong crackdown.
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @kimbakit: "Australia must be a strong voice in standing up for the international order, and for the democratic values that we hold so dear, as do the people of Hong Kong."
theage.com.au/world/asia/aus…
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#IPAC Belgium 🇧🇪 co-chair @SamuelCogolati speaks to BBC World after receiving Chinese government sanctions.
"as a democratically elected member of parliament, I cannot remain silent to testimonies from Uyghur refugees and verified information from objective reports."
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Research of #IPAC advisor @adrianzenz referenced in the @guardian editorial, contributing to mounting evidence of human rights abuses in the region.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Meet the man China is taking desperate measures to silence | The Telegraph
Interview with #IPAC adviser @adrianzenz on Chinese government attempts to silence critics abroad.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/0…
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Thank you to the Taiwan Legislative Yuan for getting behind our #SolidarityWithAustralia campaign and purchasing Australian wine. 乾杯! 🇹🇼🍷🇦🇺
taiwanenglishnews.com/taiwan-legisla…
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IPAC Co-Chair @MPIainDS asks his Urgent Question after adviser @adrianzenz new report into forced #Uyghur labour in the cotton industry.
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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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China’s hard-line turn lifts chances of deeper EU-US alliance | Politico
Chinese government sanctions on #IPAC 🇪🇺 members and other EU targets leads consolidates calls for transatlantic cooperation.
politico.eu/article/china-…
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Amazon agreed to allow only five-star reviews for Xi’s book in China | The Times
The US retail giant agreed to Beijing's demand to have anything below a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book removed from its Chinese site.
thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon…
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"Talking about crimes against humanity no longer does justice to the gravity and scale of human rights abuses against Uyghurs."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @EnginEroglu_FW speaks to Formiche as the Italian parliament debates a #UyghurGenocide motion.
formiche.net/2021/04/eroglu…
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#IPAC launches #DoNotExtradite campaign, pledging to advocate on behalf of all those threatened with extradition or deportation to the PRC.
Cards have been issued to those most at risk of persecution to offer protection to their case.
An international cross-party group of legislators working to reform the approach of democratic countries to China. Join us.