Members of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on Dec. 12 with China human rights advocates to discuss the violence and harassment by pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) groups during the APEC Leaders’ Summit in San Francisco.
Representative Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), the CECC chair, joined by Fengsuo Zhou of Human Rights in China, Anna Kwok of Hong Kong Democracy Council, Pema Doma of Students for a Free Tibet, Elfidar Iltebir of the Uyghur-American Association and other victims of violence and intimidation.
The CECC chairs have urged San Francisco County police to review these reports and pursue justice as appropriate and have focused the commission’s attention on the problem of “transnational repression,” including efforts by the CCP’s United Front Work Department to silence criticism of the CCP and its leader Xi Jinping.
