Vicky Xu says human rights activists and critics of the Chinese government in Australia are being harassed and intimidated.
Once Ms Xu began her talk last Wednesday, a man in the audience at La Trobe University repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of her work.
"Because I was participating at the event, La Trobe University had to hire security specifically for this event. Especially in light of what's happened toMs Xu is referring to an incident that is alleged to have happened to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former legislator Ted Hui in Sydney earlier this month.
"He became quite agitated and stood up and started to walk towards her in a pretty confronting way, and myself and Sophie McNeill, from Human Rights Watch, had to intervene," Mr Leibold said. Ms McNeill says dissidents from the "Cambodian community, Eritrean community, and Saudi female asylum seekers" must also feel safe in Australia.It's not the first time two Saudi sisters have fled their country and been met with tragedy
"The party denies climate change exists and Mr Barwick himself has published articles claiming Prince Philip is a mass murderer who created the World Wide Fund for Nature to commit genocide," Mr Zhang said.An associate of Mr Barwick, Jacqueline James, is another vocal critic of ASPI and Ms Xu. Mr Zhang says the CCP use its state run media, such as the Global Times, to "spread propaganda," attacking their critics' credibility, authorising Chinese intelligence agencies to "surveil and intimidate them", and conducting "state-led mass trolling".SBS News contacted Mr Barwick to ask him if he had any connections to, or funding from, the Chinese government.
He said their purpose is to "discourage people in dabbling in extreme Islamist practices" and when asked how that's done, he responded: "I'm certainly not an expert on that at all".China Leaks: ‘It was no mistake… it’s a distraction for worse to come,’ says Uyghur-Australian
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