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A6 WORLD NEWS
Monday 19 october 2020

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a press
conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario,
on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.
Associated Press
PM Trudeau: Canada

won't stop calling for

human rights in China People with old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official

presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020.
Associated Press
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau said Friday his government will not stop standing Over 50,000 march in Belarus
up for human rights in China.
On Thursday, the Chinese ambassador to Canada against authoritarian leader
warned Ottawa against granting asylum to Hong Kong
residents fleeing the situation. Cong Peiwu said if Cana- KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Tens His main challenger, Sviat- that didn't stop the protest,
da cares about 300,000 Canadian citizens in Hong Kong
— and Canadian companies doing business there — it of thousands of people lana Tsikhanouskaya, got which transforms into differ-
the 10%. She and her support-
through
ent forms, but doesn't die
marched
should support efforts to fight what he called fight violent
crime. streets of Belarus' capital ers refused to recognize down," Viasna leader Ales
on Sunday, demanding the results, saying the out-
Bialiatski said.
"We will stand up loudly and clearly for human rights,"
Trudeau said. "Whether it's talking about the situation the ouster of the country's come of the vote was ma- Tsikhanouskaya, who is cur-
authoritarian leader who nipulated.
rently in exile in Lithuania
faced by the Uighurs, whether it's talking about the very
concerning situation in Hong Kong, whether it's calling won his sixth term in office Authorities tried to quell the after leaving the country in
in an election widely seen unrest with mass deten-
fear for her safety, threat-
out China for its coercive diplomacy."
Trudeau said Canada stands with with allies around the as rigged. tions and police dispersing ened on Tuesday to call
More than 50,000 people crowds with truncheons, a nationwide strike unless
world and the United States, to Australia, to Great Britain,
to European nations to many nations around the world took part in the rally in stun grenades and water Lukashenko announces his
Minsk, according to the cannons. On Monday, the resignation, releases politi-
who share these concerns.
Canada's opposition Conservative leader said the Chi- Viasna human rights cen- country's Interior Ministry cal prisoners and stops the
ter. Demonstrators carried threatened to use firearms crackdown on protesters.
nese ambassador should apologize or be expelled from
Canada. banners mocking President against the protesters "if "If our demands aren't ful-
Lukashenko, need be," saying that the filled by Oct. 25, the entire
Alexander
"The Chinese ambassador has decided to engage in bel-
ligerent rhetoric unbecoming of his office," Conservative who has run the country for rallies "have become orga- country will peacefully take
to the streets," Tsikhanous-
26 years, and chanted "Go nized and extremely radi-
leader Erin O'Toole said in a written statement. "To be
clear, this was a threat to the 300,000 Canadians in Hong away!" cal." However, the protests kaya said in a statement.
Mass protests have rocked have continued despite "On Oct. 26, a national strike
Kong. And a barely veiled one at that. It was of the kind
of tone and tenor one would expect from someone seek- Belarus since the Aug. 9 the crackdown. of all enterprises will begin,
presidential election that "This is the first march since all roads will be blocked,
ing protection money — not someone who is the official
emissary of a member of the United Nations Security handed Lukashenko a vic- the authorities threatened sales in state-owned stores
The government should also swiftly set up a "path" for po- tory with 80% of the vote. to use firearms. But even will collapse."q
litical refugees to come to Canada from Hong Kong and
impose sanctions on Chinese officials over the national Haitian police, protesters clash; president
security law, O'Toole added. calls for unity
Protests against the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese
governments swelled last year, and Beijing clamped By EVENS SANON of protests calling for the ruler, Jean-Jacque Des-
down on expressions of antigovernment sentiment in the Associated Press resignation of President salines. Many Haitians
city with a new national security law that took effect June PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Jovenel Moïse over cor- criticize the government's
30. (AP) — Haitian police on ruption charges. Haiti is pandemic response, al-
The law outlaws subversive, secessionist, and terrorist ac- Saturday fired rubber bul- currently experiencing leging that authorities
tivity, as well as collusion with foreign powers to interfere lets and tear gas to dis- a political impasse with- have not done enough
in the city's internal affairs. The U.S., Britain and Canada perse anti-government out a parliament and is to provide treatment for
accuse China of infringing on the city's freedoms. protesters who blocked now run by decree un- those affected, or offered
Trudeau also said China is engaging in coercive diploma- roads and set fires in the der Moïse. The president economic support for
cy by imprisoning two Canadian men in retaliation for the capital, Port-au-Prince. marked Saturday by ap- those who lost work due
arrest of a Chinese Huawei executive on an American Several people were in- pealing for unity and lay- to a national lockdown
extradition warrant. In December 2018, China imprisoned jured. ing a wreath on the 214th aimed at preventing the
two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, It was the latest unrest anniversary of the death spread of COVID-19 in the
and charged them with undermining the country's na- during more than a year of Haiti's first independent impoverished country.q
tional security.q