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I’m increasingly convinced that we dehumanise #Uyghurs in the West. If this were your mother, you wouldn’t be dithering over which court should rule on genocide. You’d be doing everything in your power to make this suffering stop. twitter.com/NurKashgar/sta…
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Andy Li was taken and imprisoned 154 days ago with 11 others.
Your sacrifice isn’t forgotten, Andy.
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Update on #GenocideAmendment
👉Revised version back in House of Lords 2nd Feb publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill…
👉Commons vote could be v soon after, tbc.
👉Expecting a Gov concession in the Commons to buy off our rebels. Our position: no court, no deal. Here’s why 👇
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Grim prediction for this year: as the conversation around COVID moves towards accountability, we will see a huge surge in anti-Chinese racism.
Those who have been vocal on China’s abuses have a grave responsibility to frame the “CCP accountability” message responsibly.
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#GrandmaWong reportedly arrested. 😔
If Western leaders valued freedom and democracy as much as this woman, we’d have had an alliance of democracies years ago. twitter.com/C_8964/status/…
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So despite the fact that the debate won't be for another week at least (possibly longer), the deadline for tabling the revised #GenocideAmendment was 4pm today (highly unusual).
Don't worry. We got it down anyway. 😉
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Planning the next stage of the #GenocideAmendment with @ipacglobal colleagues @MPIainDS @Nus_Ghani and @DavidAltonHL
#Uyghurs must have their day in court. Without a judgment, the @GOVUK won’t act.
As HongKongers would say: add oil!
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BREAKING: #GenocideAmendment narrowly defeated 319 votes to 308
Revised Amendment (below) will now be re-tabled in the House or Lords.
Onwards! ✊
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If the Government was *really* opposed to the #GenocideAmendment because it “gives power to courts” they would have accepted the amendment below which we gave them over a week ago. They didn’t.
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😡Shocking. @LOS_Fisher article on leaked Government advice re: #GenocideAmendment. Here's the real reason Government wanted to offer an alternative:
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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FYI @DominicRaab @GregHands @mariacaulfield @nadams - we agree with👇 100% but, as you know, court route will be blocked by China’s veto. How then do we uphold our Genocide Convention obligations?
Inoperable and immoral policy which must now change.
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Nice to be vindicated by the @FT - many thought my @Telegraph piece on Raab’s statement was harsh. It was simply factual.👇 ft.com/content/d67c7b…
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Very strange arguments here from @DominicRaab on #GenocideAmendment
1. Amend. DOES NOT provide for a criminal process, but a “preliminary determination”.
2. Two former Supreme Court judges said High Court was correct authority when drafting.
3. He wants judges to investigate?? twitter.com/BBCPolitics/st…
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A Minister has just texted a big group of MPs about the #GenocideAmendment
“There are many problems with the...amendment, including the fact that past genocides might be in scope (which could mean Turkey, could even mean Canada or Australia)
Is this true? Judge for yourself:
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Breaking: President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews asks @BorisJohnson to support the #GenocideAmendment
The actions of the Board are unprecedented and almost unbearably poignant, doing everything they can to defend #Uyghurs twitter.com/BoardofDeputie…
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Keeping the flame alive. Thanks to the anon #HKer who sent these t-shirts. 🇭🇰🇬🇧
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#BREAKING US Senators and co-authors of recent bipartisan attempt to recognise #Uyghur genocide @marcorubio @SenJeffMerkley urge @HouseofCommons to pass the #GenocideAmendment in @Telegraph
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Daniel, some in this country are profoundly sorry the U.K. failed to protect #HK autonomy and your way of life, as we promised. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Proud to serve on @CPHumanRights and bloody proud of this headline. Qudos to @benedictrogers for his tireless work on behalf of those who need help. Thanks @larisamlbrown for this report.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
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Now THAT is what robust action on #Uyghurs looks like!!
👏👏👏
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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CONFIRMED: genocide amendment will be debate on 19th January.
Please keep writing to your MP genocideresponse.org
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Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Foreign Secretary, backs the #NoGenocideTrade amendment in today's @ConHome ahead of the launch of @CPHumanRights report on China led by the brilliant @benedictrogers
conservativehome.com/platform/2021/…
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Don’t even talk to me about the cab-rank rule. This guy has been hired to assist Lam’s cronies in procuring prosecutions of lifelong peaceful democrats. He’ll go down at Hong Kong’s Percy Yutar.
Executive Director: Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. Personal account. DMs open.