
Lord (David) Alton
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Former Liverpool MP Crossbench Peer. Chair Joint HOL/HOC @HumanRightsCtte Campaigning on #HumanRights, #Genocide, #SocialJustice,#FoRB, #RightToLife. 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
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I raised in UK Parliament the massacre by a group reported to be affiliated to ISIS of 70 Christians in a church in Congo - using machetes and hammers - and called for more to be done to end the culture of impunity and failure to hold those responsible to account UK Parliament Human Rights Committee
Lord (David) Alton249,110 次观看 • 1 年前

Hillsborough families should not have had to wait 36 years for justice. I told UK Parliament that victims had become trapped in a cycle of profound grief and wicked vilification, with the public purse used to bankroll misconduct and malfeasance. Keir Starmer, David Lammy, Shabana Mahmood MP, Wes Streeting, HillsboroughLawNow, Marie Lyon, Andy Burnham, lan Byrne MP, Tim Farron In full:
Lord (David) Alton18,236 次观看 • 7 个月前

A happy #YearOfTheRabbit 🐇 to all. At this time I especially remember political prisoners in #HongKong and throughout #China, whose fundamental rights and freedom are being denied. Hong Kong Watch, Lord Patten, Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯, Melissa Lantsman MP and Jenny Kwan MP
Lord (David) Alton51,752 次观看 • 3 年前

I raised Keir Starmer's failure to condemn the sentences imposed on #HongKong 45 & wanted clarification on reports that Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office was scandalously offering to lift sanctions on #CCP officials accused of #UyghurGenocide in return for lifting sanctions on 7 UK parliamentarians.
Lord (David) Alton27,462 次观看 • 1 年前

Saturday Jan.17,2.00pm -last chance to protest before the decision on the CCP regime’s mega embassy is made by Keir Starmer Please support residents as they take this battle to the courts.Don’t forget Hong Kong,Uyghur Muslims,Tibet,Taiwan & CCP transnational repression
Lord (David) Alton10,749 次观看 • 5 个月前

I urged the Government to honour its word to Hong Kongers who have settled in the U.K. and to provide certainty and security. I also referenced the need to define the position of Ukrainian women and children in the U.K. Government agreed to hold meetings with me and colleagues to take the discussion forward. Watch in full:
Lord (David) Alton11,076 次观看 • 7 个月前

I told Parliament that unless we tackle the root causes of mass displacement - with 123 million people displaced globally - and galvanise a coherent international response, there will be no end to the migration crisis. I also highlighted the fiction of describing Rwanda as a human rights compliant country. In full:
Lord (David) Alton12,425 次观看 • 10 个月前

Our report on Transnational Repression is out today. As part of the inquiry, we heard from Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 who lives in the UK & has a HK$1 million bounty placed on her by Hong Kong authorities.She & other witnesses spelt out the substantial risks they face
Lord (David) Alton13,214 次观看 • 11 个月前
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This week I chaired UK Parliament Human Rights Committee hearing with the outstanding Alex Crawford of Sky News, giving evidence on dangers posed by ISIS in Syria, Iraq & potentially in the UK & our failure to prevent, protect & punish, as required by Genocide Convention
Lord (David) Alton17,264 次观看 • 1 年前

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC UK Parliament Keir Starmer UK Parliament Human Rights Committee Hong Kong Watch Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊 The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation Mark L. Clifford Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley I raised the continued incarceration of Jimmy Lai & over 1000 political prisoners in HongKong and urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to respond positively to the request of Jimmy’s family & lawyer @CaoilfhionnGallager KC to meet them & take more action to secure Jimmy’s freedom.
Lord (David) Alton12,556 次观看 • 1 年前