Category: Geoffrey Nice

Chinese Sanctions ‘Wake-Up Call’ for West: UK Rights Advocates

The Chinese regime’s sanctions against Western individuals and entities who have been vocal about its human rights record should serve as a “wake-up call” for the democratic world, UK politicians and human rights advocates said on Friday. China’s Foreign Ministry said it would sanction nine individuals and four entities on the UK side that “maliciously…


Chinese Embassy Tried to Silence Me, UK Rights Activist Benedict Rogers Reveals

The Chinese Embassy in Britain made repeated attempts to pressure a prominent human rights advocate to stop criticising the Communist regime, it has been revealed. Benedict Rogers, co-founder and deputy chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program about his own “very small experience” of the Chinese…


I Hope to Live Long Enough to See Freedom Restored in China: Duncan Smith

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative Party leader in the UK, on Wednesday said he hopes to see the day when freedom and common sense are restored in China. Speaking at a webinar that marks the launch of “Darkness Deepened”—a report (pdf) by the Conservative Party’s Human Rights Commission on the worsening human rights situation in China, the…