BRUSSELS CONFERENCE
Unveiling Authoritarianism: Assessing China’s Governance and Human Rights Landscape
Thursday February 29th, 10.00 – 12.00
Registration starting at 9.30am/ Welcome coffee
Press Club Brussels, Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Brussels
Moderator: Willy Fautré Director and Co-Founder of Human Rights Without Frontiers.
BENEDICT ROGERS: “Promises Broken, Treaties Betrayed: The Dismantling of Hong Kong’s Freedoms, Rule of Law and Autonomy”
He is the author of The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny, and is the co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch. He is a member of the advisory group of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and an advisor to the World Uyghur Congress.
SIR GEOFFREY NICE, QC:“The Uyghurs in China and the Uyghur Tribunal”
He chaired both the Uyghur Tribunal and the China Tribunal into forced organ harvesting. He will address the situation of the Uyghurs in China
Dr. ROY CHUN LEE, Taipei Representative in the EU and Belgium (Since January 2024): “Taiwan’s 2024 Election and the Implications“
Dr. MASSIMO INTROVIGNE: “The Hidden Side of Religious Persecution in China: The Catholic Church and the Groups Labeled as ‘Xie Jiao.'”
He is an Italian sociologist of religions, the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) and former “OSCE Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions”
CHRISTINE MIRRE, CAP Liberté de Conscience, NGO with UN ECOSOC status: “Religious Freedom in China: Advocacy at the United Nations”
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Time: 29 feb. 2024 10:00am Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
09.00am in the UK
Meeting-ID: 920 8897 8614
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