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”
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:
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…#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.