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Optimist, fighter for #HumanRights worldwide / Director of Global Initiatives @HRW / Mom of 3 boys /@Columbia Adjunct prof / #KickAbuseOutofSport
Apr 19, 2021 4 tweets 6 min read
“For the first time @HRW is offering legal analysis that the Chinese government has committed—and continues to commit—crimes against humanity against its Turkic Muslim people”

@SophieHRW at press conference releasing this new @HRW report on #Xinjiang:

hrw.org/news/2021/04/1… “Crimes against humanity are among the gravest human rights abuses under international law”

Specific crimes named in @HRW @StanfordLaw report include imprisonment+persecution of religious groups; enforced disappearances; torture; murder+sexual violence:

hrw.org/report/2021/04…
May 28, 2020 7 tweets 9 min read
This is a dark time for #HongKong, long a beacon for freedom+#HumanRights—and the one place in #China where citizens did not have to “fear the midnight knock on the door.”

Hong Kong people need and deserve the world’s support:
#StandWithHongKong

nytimes.com/2020/05/28/wor… Image #HongKong's indomitable spirit is exemplified every year on June 4, when parents bring their children to Victoria Park to light candles for the future.

This year HK’s #TiananmenSquare candlelight vigil is banned for first time since 1989
hrw.org/news/2020/06/0… #6431truth @hrw ImageImage