Human rights advocates and diaspora communities rallied on Parliament Hill over several days this week to protest Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Canada and to call for an end to ongoing rights abuses in China.
Wang arrived in Ottawa on May 28 and met with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Prime Minister Mark Carney on May 29.
Members of several persecuted groups in China, including Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kongers, protested in Ottawa against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of people in China and transnational repression in Canada as Wang met with Canadian officials. Members of the Canadian Committee of the Democracy Party of China also protested against Wang’s visit….