Rahima Mahmut

Happy Eid ❤️ There will come a day when we celebrate Eid in our homeland of East Turkistan for which we all fight and pray! Live recording from a casual Uyghur dance performance at the Kurultaj 2018, Bugac, Hungary. @UyghurProject @lukedepulford @UyghurCongress @benedictrogers

Second Reading of Genocide Determination Bill is good news for survivors and victims. Bad news for perpetrators of the Apex Crime "... the Bill is not actor or territory specific; it is about the crime above all crimes and our willingness to make a reality of the intentions of the 1948 convention on the crime of genocide." @alexsobel, Labour MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, has agreed to act as the cross-party Bill's Sponsor as and when it reaches the House of Commons. Now it is down to @andyburnham 's Government to provide @UKParliament with the time to put this Bill onto the Statute Books. See davidalton.net/2026/07/18/uk-…

This morning @HouseofLords gave my Bill on Genocide Determination a Second Reading. Despite some anticipated opposition, speakers from all sides were overwhelmingly in support. The Bill now goes to Committee Stage for detailed scrutiny. On this matter of life and death for countless people it will now be up to the Government to provide the necessary parliamentary time if the Bill is to become law @andyburnham. In the House of Commons the MP @alexsobel has agreed to be its Commons sponsor. Watch debate in full: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/21… @Coalition4GR @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy @liz_sugg @arminkahelic @christinalamb @benedictrogers @EwelinaUO @lukedepulford @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy @ShabanaMahmood @RTHondavehanson @Lord_Collins @JennyChapman @HelenaKennedyKC @LordRoyKennedy @alexsobel @SarahChampionMP @EdwardJDavey @SarahLudford @GreenJennyJones @aliciakearns @TomTugendhat @Nus_Ghani @ipacglobal @hk_watch @thecfhk @YazdaOrg @HazaraInquiry @UyghurStop @genocide_watch @AlexCrawfordSky @sophiealichurch @TownsendMark @edwardlucas @alisonkilling @HarryFarley_ @hrw @SophieDRich @arminkahelic @MartinCallanan @NadiaMuradBasee @UyghurCongress @MahmutRahima @BaronessGoudie @arminkahelic

How very disappointing. Why PNG expelling Taiwan’s office matters: - It shrinks Taiwan’s already tiny diplomatic space, isolating Taipei is vital to Chinese Communist Party - It shows the CCP playbook working: economic dependence creates political compliance. No troops needed. - It’s geography. PNG sits on sea lanes vital to Australia, Japan, and the US. Influence there is leverage everywhere. - It signals cash strapped countries will be captured by debt entrapment

Writing in The Tablet @benedictrogers sets out the case for the Genocide Determination Bill: “The Bill is designed to end the absurd merry-go-round where the government refuses to recognise a genocide, saying it is for the courts, but without British courts having genocide determination within their judicial scope. It will give the High Court in England and Wales, and its equivalent Court of Session in Scotland, the power to receive submissions from survivors and victims of atrocities, or organisations on their behalf, and make a determination as to whether these indicate that a genocide is underway or there is a serious risk of a genocide being committed.     If the court determines that there is a genocide or the risk of one, the government – under this Bill – would be required by law to act to fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention to prevent it or punish the perpetrators, by imposing sanctions or referring the case to the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice or other international bodies.   If this Bill passes, it will be an historic moment and provide a long overdue mechanism for addressing what has become known as the crime of crimes” @andyburnham @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy @attorneygeneral @jennychapman @ShabanaMahmood @Burmacampaign @Coalition4GR @bbclysedoucet @christinalamb @alexsobel @AlexCrawfordSky @CharlesHMoore @FraserNelson @NigeriaCsw @CSW_UK @acn_uk @timfarron @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @pmounstephen @danny__kruger @Billbrowder @DXW_KC @tariqahmadbt @afneil @MorrisofBolton @aliciakearns @MahmutRahima @UyghurCongress @HumanRightsCtte url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cwEVCr8AwCAv…

Today, @DavidAltonHL’s Genocide Determination Bill will have its second reading in the @UKHouseofLords. You can watch it here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/21…

China’s official propaganda, portraying Filipinos as sub-humans, is deeply racist. In fact, the Chinese view others, particularly those with darker skins, as inferiors.

No spy hub. Defend UK security. Huge shout out to Hong Kongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs, and other communities persecuted by the CCP who have backed this legal challenge since the beginning.

When will UK Government @FCDOHumanRights call out the mass persecution of people with religious beliefs in CCP China? - Christians,Muslims, Buddhists, Falun Gong …Just more “business as usual.” @APPGFoRB @YvetteCooperMP @JennyChapman @SecRubio @CharlesHMoore @MPIainDS @ipacglobal @andyburnham

Yet more heartbreaking news from #HongKong The Chinese Communist Party and its ridiculous, pathetic, petty, paranoid, cowardly henchmen in Hong Kong are absurd. They are petrified of books. They’re terrified of booksellers. And they’re absolutely scared witless by people who think and have ideas and beliefs.

#BREAKING @Europarl_EN Security and Defence Committee adopt a report on hybrid warfare prepared by 🇱🇹 Co-Chair @RJukneviciene: ‼️ China is called a high risk country in the context of concerns for European critical infrastructure. ‼️ Concerns over Chinese ownership of critical infrastructure triggering espionage, interference, and strategic dependency risks.

#BREAKING Chinese govt is being investigated for allowing staff to have *prohibited weapons* in their consular buildings. At both Royal Mint Court and Portland Place, guards were armed with high voltage taser sticks, unlawful for anyone in the UK. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Today : @humanrightsctte (JCHR) Chair, David Alton, welcomes stronger forced labour supply chain safeguards in Immigration and Asylum Bill   The Bill, having its second reading in the House of Commons today, would introduce stronger requirements for Transparency In Supply Chain (TISC) statements. Under s.54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, relevant UK businesses are required to publish a TISC annually to report if they have taken any steps to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains. The Bill would amend s.54 to broaden the scope of the reporting duty to cover some public authorities; strengthen the duty by setting out specific criteria that TISCs must include; and provide powers to introduce financial penalties for non-compliance limited to £1,000,000, or 1% of total turnover or budget.   In a statement, JCHR Chair, Lord Alton, said:   “I welcome the Government’s proposed legislative changes to implement three recommendations made by the Joint Committee on Human Rights in its report into forced labour in UK supply chains. publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5901/jtse… These measures would expand and strengthen the legal requirements to publicly report the actions taken to address modern slavery in supply chains each year. New penalties for non-compliance could reach £1,000,000 or more, so relevant companies and public authorities must take their duties seriously, and not treat them as simply a rubber stamping exercise.   “The public deserve to have confidence that the goods and services they use on a daily basis are not produced at a terrible cost to people across the globe. That is why we need strong measures in place to ensure that businesses and public bodies are taking adequate steps to understand what is going on in their supply chains and take effective action to reduce the risks of forced labour and modern slavery.”   The Joint Committee on Human Rights published its report Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains in July 2025. It warned that the UK had fallen behind other countries in its approach to addressing supply chain issues and risked becoming a dumping ground for goods made using forced labour. In addition to improvements to the UK’s legal and regulatory framework, the Committee called for stronger mandatory human rights due diligence measures and greater access to justice in UK courts for forced labour victims. The report will be debated in @UKHouseofLords on 4 September 2026 @ShabanaMahmood @RTHondavehanson @LordSpeaker @LordRoyKennedy @andyburnham @FrancesOGrady @gbenergy @Ed_Miliband @CommonsSpeaker

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill must include a vital safeguard: no data-sharing with countries that deny fair trials. With @MPIainDS's anti-transnational repression amendment set to return in the Lords, @natalieben is urging this crucial protection to be adopted👇

Today, a years-long battle against the Chinese mega-embassy hits the High Court. IPAC is delighted to have organised and supported this Judicial Review. Thank you to the residents, civil society groups, and cross-party coalition for joining the fight.

这种态势在1971年被进一步固化。联合国通过第2758号决议，承认中华人民共和国为“代表中国的唯一合法政府”，并将中华民国（台湾）逐出其席位。虽然这一举措被界定为对外交代表权的务实校正，但它从未重新审视“何谓中国”的疆域与人民构成。无论是维吾尔人、藏人，还是台湾人，都未被视为独立的政治主体。该决定把“中国”编码为单一且不可分割的实体——在国际想象中为北京的领土主张背书，同时抹除了其他主权方案的存在空间。 然而，这一结果并非必然。1971年之前，联合国从未就何者真正代表“中华”版图上的所有土地作出明确裁决。这种虽小却真实存在的模糊地带，尚且为不同身份的讨论与承认留下了一线余地。第2758号决议则完全关上了这扇窗。自那以后，国际法事实上将“中国”视为一个不可分割的整体，而不再顾及其版图内各族群的历史与愿望。 chinese.uhrp.org/insights/%e4%b…

❗️🇨🇳 Mega-embassy judicial review hearings tomorrow and Wednesday. Here's what to expect: 1⃣ It would be fairly normal to lose at this stage (administrative court), and then to appeal. A case of this significance naturally points towards to the higher courts. However: 2⃣ The case for the claimants (Royal Mint Court Residents Association @StopTheEmbassy) is strong, and the judge, Lady Justice Lieven, has a reputation for robustly defending the rule of law. 3⃣ Everything is arguable in the law, and nobody should be over-confident in litigation. We don't know which way this is going to go, but we are hopeful. 4⃣ We also don't know when to expect the judgment. Could be a while. The judiciary recess may delay it. 5⃣ The grounds have been set out in some detail in the press, but our ground 1, which addresses enforceability, is a real problem for the government. See the 📸 below, which is a transcription of the letter Boris Johnson sent to Wang Yi in 2018, which, by the way, the UK government refused to release (got a copy anyway). This clearly indicates that diplomatic consent was given in 2018, at which point, under UK law, inviolability attached to the land. To be clear: Royal Mint Court has been inviolable Chinese government land since 2018, which creates major headaches for the enforceability of conditions agreed in the subsequent planning application. 6⃣ If we lose, we will appeal. If the Government loses, I don't know what they will do. A part of me suspects that they hope we will win, so they can blame us in discussions with the Chinese side. This won't work, however, because the CCP does not understand why Ministers simply couldn't make the mega embassy happen for them, and were totally flummoxed by our processes, especially the humiliation of being rejected unanimously by Tower Hamlets Council the first time they applied. Beijing will blame the Government, and you can confidently predict that they will try to punish the UK in the event that their geopolitical ambition is frustrated by a merry band of Tower Hamlets residents and @ipacglobal 7⃣I won't set out all the other grounds here, but will underline that this case will be decided on planning merits alone. That means that geopolitical issues will barely feature. We are trying to establish that the Government acted unlawfully in approving the mega embassy. We had to excise our grounds which alleged that other matters had been taken into account in determining this application (clearly proven by Boris' letter below, IMO, but proving that in court would have entailed costly disclosure hearings). The Government has endless money to deploy, we don't. 8⃣ That said, with the help of superb dissident organisations and ordinary Brits, we managed to raise 215k, and I personally raised more to ensure we have enough to fight this case with the best counsel available. It's incredible to think of the thousands of hours of effort we and the residents have had to put in to defend the UK from this monstrous idea, which would be a disaster for UK national security, and project CCP power to the whole of Europe. I'll try to keep you posted from the courtroom, with the usual caveats surrounding restrictions.

Police have arrested thousands across China in a drive to shut down underground churches. The Telegraph spoke to six Chinese Christians who have either been targeted by the CCP or have incarcerated relatives. These are their stories ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

To see where this leads, look at Tibet, where Beijing perfected its system of social control, writes Richard Gere. on.wsj.com/4vVjt7Z

Another heartbreaking account of the Chinese government's ongoing atrocities in the Uyghur homeland: @HKokbore waited a decade to hear his mother's voice, only to receive news of her passing. Beijing's inhumane brutality continues to haunt Uyghur exiles. yibaochina.com/?p=258377

China used force to annex Tibet. The annexation, therefore, is not legitimate. Let’s say this out loud: Tibet is not part of China.