Category: Dominic Raab

Uyghur Repression: Boris Johnson Says Genocide Attribution ‘Judicial Matter’

January 20, 2021
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday deflected criticisms of his government’s stance on the plight of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority and said the attribution of genocide is “a judicial matter.” On Tuesday, Johnson’s government instructed lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party to vote down an amendment to the Trade Bill that would have given…

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UK Prosecutor Pulls out of Hong Kong Case Against Pro-Democracy Activists

January 20, 2021
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HONG KONG—A British prosecutor hired by the Hong Kong government to lead a case against democracy activists has pulled out after coming under pressure in Britain including “disgraceful” comments by its foreign minister, city authorities said on Wednesday. David Perry, a Queen’s Counsel, was due to lead the case against tabloid media magnate Jimmy Lai…

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UK Has Vaccinated 4 Million People Against CCP Virus, Health Secretary Says

January 18, 2021
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Over four million people in the UK have received their first dose of the CCP virus vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday. “I’m very glad to report that, as of midnight last night, we have now vaccinated 4,062,501 people across the United Kingdom, and we’re currently vaccinating more than double the rate—per person…

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UK Demands Release of Putin Critic Alexei Navalny

January 18, 2021
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The UK government on Monday joined international calls for Russia to release opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was detained on Sunday. Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was detained on arrival at a Moscow airport after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer. Navalny could…

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UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says

January 17, 2021
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The UK may begin easing existing CCP virus lockdown measures in March if the vaccine roll-out goes to plan, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday. Talking to the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show,” Raab said the government plans to vaccinate 15 million—or 88 percent—of those most at risk of dying from the CCP virus by…

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UK Introduces Measures to Prevent Complicity in Uyghur Abuse

January 12, 2021
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Britain on Tuesday introduced measures to prevent British organisations from being complicit in the Chinese regime’s human rights violations against Uyghurs. “The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violations being perpetrated in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far reaching,” UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement. “Today…

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UK: Hong Kong’s National Security Law Used to Crush Dissents

January 6, 2021
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The UK’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday said that the national security law imposed on Hong Kong is being used to crush dissent and their views. The statement came after 53 pro-democracy figures were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning—the largest mass arrest so far since the national security law went into effect…

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UK ‘Deeply Concerned’ Over 12 Hong Kong Activists on Trial in China

December 28, 2020
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The UK is “deeply concerned” over the fate of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who were secretly put on trial in China’s Shenzhen city, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday. “We are deeply concerned that members of the Shenzhen 12 were tried in secret today, having been given just three days’ notice of their…

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