UK MPs urge govt. to raise Tibet's human rights issue at ongoing UNHRC session
Source: PHAYUL
The cross-party coalition of United Kingdom MP’s, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet, on Wednesday called on the UK government to raise the issue of China’s human rights record inside Tibet during the ongoing (13 June to 1 July) United Nation Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
In a letter addressed to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and the UK's Permanent Representative at the UN Julian Braithwaite, APPG for Tibet Chair and MP Tim Loughton urged, “the United Kingdom keep human rights violations by China firmly on the Council’s agenda.”
The letter further urged the government to, “Ensure that China is held to account for the human rights situation in Tibet saying it is a matter of principle and integrity that the international community continue to stand in solidarity with defenders and activists on the ground.
The MPs sought to push forth specific agendas concerning the human rights violations such as increasing and violent crackdown in Tibet citing HRW’s May 2016 report which stated “China’s ongoing campaign to suppress peaceful dissent in Tibet has led to a high rate of detentions, prosecutions, and convictions since 2008, and a changing pattern of unrest and politicized detentions, prosecutions, and convictions can be seen to link to China’s “stability maintenance” campaign – a policy that has resulted in unprecedented surveillance and control in Tibetan villages and towns.”
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