46 civil society organizations urge Secretary Blinken to raise human rights concerns during China visit

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More photos from #Tibet ans & #HongKong ers ’ protest against top CCP official & PRC ambassador to US Xie Feng at Harvard University’s Harvard Kennedy School. Stand up against the CCP’s human rights abuses & crushing of the popular will in #Tibet & #HongKong .

#Tibetans & #HongKongers protest Xie Feng at Harvard University. Xie’s PRC ambassador to the US. He was a main CCP official in HK during the 2019 protests & subsequent crackdown. He’s invited to speak by Chinese students at Harvard Kennedy School. US universities should avoid associating w/ him.

Joint statement by 21 US #HongKong groups:
We oppose the visit to the US of top HK government official Christopher Hui & call on US authorities, groups & businesses to refrain from meeting Hui or other HK gov't officials while the crackdown in HK goes on. tinyurl.com/yc23z96x

#HongKongers & allies in Chicago are protesting against the visit of top HK official Christopher Hui, who is at an event co-hosted by HKETO. Say no to meetings with top HK officials as long as they continue to crack down on HKers!

【“香港人不是罪人！”】
2024年3月24日下午，北加州港人团体及各界人士在旧金山渡轮大厦抗议 #23条立法 。

Breaking: According to an internal Hong Kong DOJ departure email seen by Hong Kong activists, national security prosecutor Alice Chan Shook-man has resigned from her 28-year career with the department, making her the first sanctions target named in the Hong Kong Sanctions Act to

The #HongKong gov. public consultation for Article23 will end next Wednesday. I call on them to ensure that it complies with international human rights law, or withdraw the draft legislation. I urge GOV.UK & others to show there is great concern about this
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Disturbed to hear the CCP-backed Hong Kong government is yet again taking drastic steps to oppress the people of Hong Kong by introducing a new law called Article 23, which further restricts citizens' rights and freedoms.

Communist China claims no foreign gov is opposed. Let me

Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs CHRD人权捍卫者 China Mission Geneva ccp rules

Yang Jiechi is the most sr CCP official in charge of foreign affairs who is still alive. His wife is Aimei Le, born in 1949, also a CCP official. It turned out that his wife has been living in DC for years. His daughter lives in Manhattan, NY. They own several properties in U.S.

Harvard Club of New York If the #HKETOCertificationAct becomes law, US gov't entities & others may face limitations contracting w/ HKETO. But it shouldn't take a law for GSA Ridgewells Catering & Harvard Club of New York to act ethically & not do business w/ an oppressive regime.
#NoToHKETO
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In Washington DC, HKETO hosted its #LunarNewYear reception at Mellon Auditorium, part of the Clinton Federal Building, administered by GSA, outsourced to Ridgewells Catering. Both should cease providing the venue to the rights-abusing authoritarian #HongKong government.
#NoToHKETO

Celebrate Lunar New Year in Hong Kong.

You *probably* won’t be arrested.

Hong Kong Watch welcomes Recommendations on Hong Kong at the UN Universal Periodic Review

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In all, 18 countries made recommendations related to human rights violations in #HongKong at #ChinaUPR : Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, UK and USA.

The United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review of China has just concluded.
-16 countries mentioned #HongKong
-6 called for repeal of HK national security law (US, Canada, UK, NZ, Australia, Czechia)
-4 expressed concern about NSL
At last China UPR in 2018, only 6 countries mentioned HK