Click here to read the report:https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/78/foreign-affairs-committee/news/156425/foreign-affairs-committee-publish-report-never-again-the-uks-responsibility-to-act-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang-and-beyond/
Well deserved 2021 Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty: Nury Turkel, a Uyghur who has given voice to his persecuted people. A man who encourages us all to speak truth to power.
The first Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty has been presented to Nury Turkel of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom at the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit on June 28, 2021: . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ed1u5iOjg
In Parliament today I urged the Government to raise the latest examples of atrocity crimes and Genocide against the Uighurs at the UN Security Council and to support the work of the Independent Uighur Tribunal
House of Lords 16th July 2021 Lord Alton of Liverpool:With Amnesty International’s report detailing arbitrary detention, forced indoctrination, torture, mass surveillance and crimes against humanity – along with newspaper reports from Xinjiang of the destruction of...
Today’s Telegraph reports on 16,000 Uyghur Mosques Being Destroyed or Damaged in Xinjiang – and being replaced by a Hilton Hotel and offices – as CCP seeks to destroy identity, religion and culture. Their journalists were physically attacked while documenting their report.
Xinjiang- a Surveillance State which is trying to destroy identity and replace it with CCP ideology Today’s Telegraph reports on Uyghur Mosques Being Destroyed in Xinjiang
Government fails to follow US in introducing restrictions on imports of cotton goods made by slave labour in Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang.
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel, the Department for International Trade, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL555): Government fails to follow US in introducing restrictions on imports of cotton goods made by slave labour in Uighur...
Uyghur Tribunal told how Uyghur Muslims are shackled with “tiger chains”, tortured, forcibly sterilised, raped and live in fear of mass surveillance reports The Daily Telegraph
Uyghur Tribunal told how Uyghur Muslims are shackled with “tiger chains”, tortured, forcibly sterilised, raped and live in fear of mass surveillance reports The Daily Telegraph
Tiananmen Day Commemoration Remarks by Dr. Yang Jianli at the Tiananmen Candlelight Vigil hosted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
“Tank Man”- the unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the day after the Chinese military on CCP orders suppressed the Tiananmen Square protest and massacred protestors. As we commemorate their...
Prime Minister Meets Cross Party Group Of Parliamentarians Sanctioned By The Chinese Communist Party For Highlighting Uyghur Genocide And Attacks On Hong Kong Freedoms
Parliament Square before today’s meeting with Boris Johnson.Lord Alton, Nus Ghani MP, Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP. https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1375776710881337344?s=21 This morning I spoke with some of those who have been shining a light on the gross human...
For the Uyghurs, Genocide is a word which dares not speak its name. For the sake of women like Rahima Mahmut, Gulzira Auelkhan, Sayragul Sauytbay, and Ruqiye Perhat – whose heart-breaking, shocking, stories are recorded here – it’s time that the crime of genocide was given definition in the UK. On January 19th Parliament can use its voice and speak that name – insisting on justice for victims of Genocide and refusing to make tawdry trade deals with those responsible for the crime above all crimes.
For the Uyghurs Genocide is a word which dares not speak its name ================================================= Extract: What word comes into your mind when you hear evidence of a State complicit in the destruction of a people’s identity; complicit in...
When will the UK Government follow the US example and issue the equivalent of the Withhold Release Orders on products from China allegedly produced with state-sponsored forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? UK says it is keeping its policy “under review”. No need to review – time to act.
https://www.google.com/search?q=uyghur+forced+labour&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-gbGB819GB819&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUqvbi5JjsAhXoUhUIHc4sBHcQ_AUoAnoECBUQBA&biw=987&bih=625#imgrc=kLLn71XnK9cIbM When will the UK Government follow the US...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...
2024 Hong Kong Symposium: British Hong Kongers are the Advance Guard In the Battle Between Dictatorship and Democracy.
Giving the Closing address at this year's 3-day Hong Kong Symposium David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) thanked Finn Lau, the Chair of the Symposium and the Steering committee for organising such a well attended and successful event. Lord Alton described the British...