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Lords Chamber
China: Genocide - Thu 25 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) Magnitsky sanctions can be used; I declare an interest as an officer of the new APPG on Magnitsky Sanctions - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (CON - Life peer) As we speak, Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang are being detained in concentration camps, with testimonies of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) are being imported to China, as China has an economic interest there. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) to concern and requires further action.The extrajudicial detention of more than 1 million Uighur Muslims - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Afghanistan - Wed 18 Aug 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) The Taliban has a history of female oppression and of brutality. - Speech Link
2: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) A thug like Lukashenko can laugh at our threat of sanctions on him and his regime. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Failing which, the US was perfectly entitled to enforce its demands from the air or with boots on the - Speech Link
4: Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Uighur Muslims and in the Buddhist Burmese treatment of the Rohingya. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cromwell (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the UK now have in seeking to work with China and Russia on Afghanistan and its neighbours, given the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Uighur and Rohingya Muslims. - Speech Link
2: None Having seen a video of shackled and blindfolded Uighur Muslims being led from trains to camps, Dominic - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) The assaults on Tibetan identity and the oppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang are mirrored in Mongolia - Speech Link
4: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) responsible for oppression of Uighurs in Xinjiang. - Speech Link
5: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (CON - Life peer) The examples he gave of the Uighur Muslims in China are truly chilling. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
China’s Policy on its Uyghur Population - Mon 12 Oct 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) It asks that the Government impose sanctions on China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims. - Speech Link
2: John Howell (CON - Henley) Members have asked for Magnitsky sanctions to be imposed on China. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hong Kong - Thu 24 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) of 1 million Uighur Muslims, for them to be re-educated, brainwashed, intimidated, and reprogrammed. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten of Barnes (CON - Life peer) Just as that has changed attitudes to economic matters in China, it has had an impact on political issues - Speech Link
3: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) the right to abode, if China ever reneged on its promises. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) , the Uighur Muslims and other minorities within China and we will continue to do so.The noble Lord, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rohingya Refugee Crisis - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) Hluttaw—its Parliament.I am the trade envoy to Burma and, finally, I want to say that the economic development - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) There are other steps that the UK and its agencies could take to more effectively enforce sanctionsfor - Speech Link
3: Helen Goodman (LAB - Bishop Auckland) As part of its belt and road initiative, China is currently trying to build a port in Rakhine state. - Speech Link
4: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) But we shall continue to try to engage China on the need for accountability for this horrendous set of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Thu 24 Jul 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) ; convictions for ill defined crimes or on falsified political charges; economic targeting through exorbitant - Speech Link
2: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) Muslims in Burma, Hindus in Pakistan, Falun Gong in China or Baha’i in Iran.In the brief time I have - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) In other areas of the world, it is Muslims who face restrictions, such as Chinese Uighur Muslim students - Speech Link
4: Lord Elton (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Lord, Lord Parekh, was looking for some means of controlling micro-oppression, as I might call - Speech Link
5: Lord Clarke of Hampstead (LAB - Life peer) Instead of talking about reducing the pretty ineffective sanctions, we should be seeking firmer sanctions - Speech Link