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In a public communication to the Chinese government, United Nations human rights experts have raised serious concerns regarding China’s “counter-terrorism law” and called for a review of the legislation that came into force in 2016 in order to bring it in line with international human rights standards.
China has identified “new crimes of terrorism” in a further escalation of oppressive measures that are focused less on protecting China’s citizens and more on the elimination of dissent and enforcement of compliance to Communist Party policies.
On 8 February 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in collaboration with the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) held a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, kindly hosted by MEPs Ilhan Kyuchyuk (ALDE) and Thomas Mann (EPP).
The International Campaign for Tibet, in collaboration with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk (ALDE) and MEP Thomas Mann (EPP), will be convening a conference at the European Parliament entitled ‘Chinese counter-terrorism policy: Impacts and dangers for Tibetans and Uyghurs’ on 8 February 2017.
On 15 November 2016, the joint-report of ICT and FIDH on China’s new counter-terrorism law was released during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and FIDH highlighted the serious human rights risks and counter-productive nature of China’s new counter-terrorism law in a new report launched on 15 November at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.
Following the adoption of a highly controversial law on counter-terror in China at the end of last year, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) held a high-level roundtable discussion on the issue on 7 June 2016 in the Clingendael Institute in The Hague.
The International Campaign for Tibet and the International Federation for Human Rights are organising a side event on China’s new law on counter-terrorism during the upcoming 31th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
China has passed its first counter-terror law, rejecting concerns from international governments that draconian measures in the name of national security are being used to crack down on Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese civil society and to undermine religious freedom.