Recommendation for the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on EU-China political relations

Tabled by Hilde Vautmans

… and demand the unconditional release of political prisoners, including the 2019 Sakharov Removed: Prize laureate Added: Laureate Ilham Tohti, EU-citizen Gui Minhai, Gulshan Abbas, Gao Zhisheng, Yu Wensheng and … at a designated location, call for freedom of movement for 2008 Sakharov Removed: Prize laureate Added: Laureate Hu Jia and ask Removed: for news on his current status; insist that China frees the laureate of … Chow Hang-tung as well as Jimmy Lai, Benny Tai, Joshua Wong, Leung Removed: Kwok-hung, Added: Kwok hung, Owen Chow and individuals of Removed: the Hong Kong 47 group who remain imprisoned under the national security law; condemn the Added: prosecution of former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San under Macao’s national security law and call for his immediate and unconditional release; condemn the use of the death penalty in China, and Removed: note Added: recall that the total estimated number of executions in China exceeds all other … punishment; support independent Chinese, Hong Kong, and diasporic civil-society actors, environmental defenders, Removed: labour rights Added: and labour-rights advocates and human rights defenders; call for an EU-China Civil-Society Dialogue Facility …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.288