{"id":12293,"date":"2018-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/eu-statement-at-unhrc37-human-rights-situation-that-require-the-councils-attention\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:00:00","slug":"eu-statement-at-unhrc37-human-rights-situation-that-require-the-councils-attention","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/eu-statement-at-unhrc37-human-rights-situation-that-require-the-councils-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Statement at UNHRC37: Human Rights situation that require the Council\u2019s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU Statement at the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council<br> Item 4 \u2013 Human Rights situation that require the Council\u2019s attention<br> 14 March 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(&#8230;)<br>While acknowledging the progress made on a number of areas of social and economic rights in <strong>China<\/strong>, the EU is concerned about detentions and trials of human rights defenders and lawyers Wang Quanzhang, Li Yuhan, Huang Qi, Yu Wensheng, Wu Gan and Tashi Wangchuk. The EU urges China to release all detained human rights defenders and to thoroughly investigate reported cases of mistreatment and torture while in detention. The EU is also concerned about the continued detention of the Swedish citizen Gui Minhai. The EU demands that he be allowed to meet Swedish diplomatic and medical staff and that he be released. The EU calls upon China to respect the rights of freedom of expression offline and online, and of religion, as well as cultural diversity, not least in Tibet and Xinjiang. <br>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Remarks:<\/strong> The  above quote is from the full statement available on the UNHRC\u2019s website,  but it was shortened orally with only those sentences said: <em>\u201cIn China, the EU is concerned about detentions and trials of Wang Quanzhang, Li Yuhan, Huang Qi, Yu Wensheng, Wu Gan and Tashi Wangchuk. The EU urges China to release all detained human rights defenders and demands that Swedish citizen Gui Minhai be allowed to meet Swedish diplomatic and medical staff and that he be released.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"footnote wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/generic-warning-system-taxonomy\/404\/41294\/hrc-37-eu-statement-item-4-human-rights-situation-require-councils-attention_en\">https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/generic-warning-system-taxonomy\/404\/41294\/hrc-37-eu-statement-item-4-human-rights-situation-require-councils-attention_en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Statement at the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council Item 4 \u2013 Human Rights situation that require the Council\u2019s attention 14 March 2018 (&#8230;)While acknowledging the progress made on a number of areas of social and economic rights in China, the EU is concerned about detentions and trials of human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11573,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[664,685],"news_tag":[665],"class_list":["post-12293","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-newstibet-europe-news","categorie-policy-centereuropean-union-institutionseeas","news_tag-europe-and-tibet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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