Today is Ekpar Asat’s birthday. In 2016, Ekpar was detained by CCP after participating in a @StateDept program. Ekpar, and many Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims, continue to be imprisoned due to their religious beliefs. It's time for CCP to #FreeEkpar and other innocent Uyghurs.
This report shows the size and scale of forced labor in Xinjiang.
Detention camp factories “cover more than 21 million sq ft—nearly 4x the size of the Mall of America.”
Corporations doing business there risk being complicit in gross human rights abuses.
https://t.co/jFXoEpDri5
Over 50 pro-democracy freedom fighters were just arrested in Hong Kong under the so-called national security law for participating in the primary election last July. Carrie Lam’s Beijing-controlled government calls this “suspicion of subversion”. https://t.co/9MOnHABpM9
Police arrested dozens of pro-democracy politicians early Wednesday in a series of dawn raids that swept up many of the opposition’s most prominent opposition figures https://t.co/yZtoHg9KY9
Chair @RepGregoryMeeks: Beijing’s national security law is being used to ruthlessly attack Hong Kongers—last week by sentencing democracy activists, this week by arresting dozens of pro-democracy politicians for participating in last year’s LegCo primaries
https://t.co/iPHg5i1ZXf
Pro-democracy politicians are being arrested for speaking up for freedom and democracy.
When will Beijing stop? They will find any excuse to arrest and silence those who yearn for their basic human rights.
The arrest of American citizen & human rights lawyer John Clancey under the “National Security Law” shows the sweeping authority the #CCP has provided itself to arrest & prosecute anyone it sees as “subverting authority.” Beijing views no one as beyond its authoritarian grasp.
The world knows what is really happening in #HongKong as Beijing continues to crackdown against freedoms. Arresting opposition leaders won’t squash the desire for fundamental rights. I stand with the people of Hong Kong against CCP repression.
https://t.co/sK8QYiJURw
The Hong Kong police arrested dozens of elected pro-democracy officials and activists on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law after they tried to organize an informal primary election last year for the city’s legislature https://t.co/1tL8hXrbPd
Hong Kong police arrested dozens under the China-imposed #NationalSecurityLaw in the biggest sweep yet.
- Arrests include lawmakers and activists Alvin Yeung, James To, Lam Cheuk-ting, Claudia Mo, Benny Tai
- Arrests by police’s national security branch
https://t.co/1OXnw6BtZu
Hong Kong's Democratic Party said police arrested the activists for attempting to select candidates for a legislature election, which Beijing warned last year may violate the new security law.
https://t.co/Wl3rOSbOD1
JUST IN: Hong Kong police arrest dozens of pro-democracy figures for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in an unofficial primary election last year, according to political parties and local media. https://t.co/8Xy378HbbY