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UK Should Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics Over Uyghur Genocide: Liberal Democrats Leader Britain should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because there is “overwhelming” evidence the Chinese regime is committing genocide against the Uyghur minority, the leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats has said. “The Liberal Democrats, like many other people, have seen the evidence coming out from Xinjiang in western China that the Chinese authorities are persecuting the Uyghurs who live there,” Sir Ed Davey told NTD in an interview on Thursday. Workers walk by the perimeter fence of wha...

UK Peers Pass Lord Alton’s Genocide Amendment for Third Time In a final attempt to give legal backing to the recognition of state genocide in relation to trade, the UK’s House of Lords on Tuesday passed a “genocide amendment” for the third time. The amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill, proposed by Lord Alton of Liverpool, seeks to establish an ad-hoc Parliamentary Judicial Committee (PJC) that could make a preliminary determination on whether a partner in a relevant bilateral trade agreement with the UK has committed genocide. If such a determination is made, the Secreta...

Legitimacy of Trading With Genocidal Countries Is the Battle of Our Times: Lord Alton 'Genocide amendment' author 'confident' House of Lords will send amendment back to Commons The legitimacy of trading with genocidal countries is the battle of our times, the UK’s Lord Alton of Liverpool has said, drawing parallels with the opium and slave trades in past centuries. Lord Alton is the author of an amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill often dubbed the “genocide amendment,” which, if adopted, would give UK courts the power to determine whether a current or potential trade partner ...

Tory rebels have accused the government of using procedural games to prevent a vote on an attempt to outlaw trade deals with countries committing genocide.

UK Lawmakers to Fight for Genocide Amendment as Compromise Version Pushed Through The UK Parliament on Tuesday passed a compromise version of an amendment to its post-Brexit Trade Bill on curbing trade with genocidal countries. The amendment (pdf), proposed by Conservative MP Robert Neill and backed by the government, was put before MPs instead of Lord Alton’s original version, which won by a two-thirds majority in the House of Lords on Feb. 3. While the government argued that Neill’s amendment is “superior,” supporters of the original amendment condemned the government for tabling wh...