Email Action: Don’t Let China Silence You: Stand up for Tibet!

Remind Australia’s Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, that Australians believe in human rights and that we support Tibet.

Remind Australia’s Prime Minister and Trades Minister that they should not allow China to set the agenda in our trade talks and they will not accept any conditions where Australia is silent about Tibet.

As Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and the Minister for trade they have a duty to represent the wishes of the Australian people – who believe that human rights and Tibet are more important than trade.

Remind Australia’s Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, that Australians believe in human rights and that we support Tibet.

Remind Australia’s Prime Minister and Trades Minister that they should not allow China to set the agenda in our trade talks and they will not accept any conditions where Australia is silent about Tibet.

As Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and the Minister for trade they have a duty to represent the wishes of the Australian people – who believe that human rights and Tibet are more important than trade.

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Email the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Trade Minister to Stand Up for Tibet!

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Dear Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and the Minister for Trade,

As a Tibet supporter, I urge you don’t let China silence you - Stand up for Tibet!

Chinese Premier Li Qiang is visiting Australia this month to further trade discussions with Australia, however, we cannot allow China to dictate to us the conditions of the Australia-China relationship.

Australia must be able to stand up to China about Tibet and Australia must remain committed to speaking out about human rights violations.

My expectation, as a supporter of Tibet and an Australian concerned about human rights, is that the Australian Government will speak up directly to China about the ongoing human rights violations in Tibet and apply Magnitsky sanctions to CCP officials responsible for human rights violations in Tibet.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has applied Magnitsky-style sanctions against 13 individuals and three entities from Russia and Iran, and yet no Chinese Communist Party official responsible for human rights abuses in Tibet, Hong Kong, or towards Uyghurs has been Magnitsky sanctioned by Australia.

Magnitsky sanctions are designed to target individuals accused of gross human rights abuses by means of asset freezes and travel bans. Currently, the Chinese Communist Party can arrest and torture Tibetans with impunity, and Magnitsky-style sanctions on Chinese Communist Party officials are one of the few tools Australia has that could deter officials from their brutality towards Tibetans and punish their abuse of Tibetans’ human rights.

In February 2024, over 1,000 Tibetans in Dege County protested the planned development by the Chinese Government of a hydro-dam which would flood their village and destroy two monasteries, each with centuries-old Buddhist murals. The destruction of Tibetan Buddhism and attacks on Tibetan culture and way of life are a constant staple of the occupation of Tibet.

Tibetans from Dege stood up to China and engaged in peaceful protest for days to try to protect their town and monasteries, and once again were arrested by Chinese authorities for simply raising their voices and protesting against the Chinese Communist Party. Over 1,000 Tibetans were arrested including Tibetan Buddhist monks. Once more the Chinese Communist Party has been allowed by the world to crush the human rights of Tibetans with impunity.

During meetings with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the Australian Government should:

1. Call on China to re-engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama and Central Tibetan Authority (Tibetan Government in Exile) to resolve the Sino-Tibet conflict.

2. Reinforce Australia’s expectation that China immediately grants meaningful and unfettered access to Tibet for independent observers, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

3. Demand that China end its oppressive policies targeting Tibetan children and end the residential boarding school and pre-school system that separate an estimated one million Tibetan children from their families in denial of their cultural, religious and linguistic rights.

4. Demand that China cease interference in the selection and installation of Tibetan Buddhist leaders, including any future Dalai Lama. The determination of Tibetan Buddhist leaders must be determined solely by the Tibetan people, in accordance with international human rights law, without any interference by the Chinese Government.

5. Demand that China immediately halt non-voluntary “labour transfer” and “vocational training” programs that amount to Forced Labour in Tibet and cease ‘political re-education’ in these forced labour programs.

6. Demand that China repeal or amend provisions of their Criminal Procedure Law that violate the rights of detainees to a fair trial, and are routinely used to arrest Tibetans for peacefully exercising their human rights under the guise of ‘separatism’ and other State Security crimes.

Over 50 years of diplomatic engagement between Australia and China has seen both countries become richer through trade – at the expense of Tibetans and others oppressed by China.

If Australia allows China to occupy, oppress and continually abuse Tibetan human rights with impunity then Australia is complicit in the oppression of Tibetans.

So I once more ask you to use the occasion of the visit of Chinese Premier Li Qiang to raise China’s human rights abuses and stand up for Tibet!

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