Diane Abbott MP has been a focus of discussion this weekend following her participation in an event denying the Chinese regime’s genocide of Uyghur people.

Some have linked this incident to her past positions on Syria.

A selection of links on that history follows:

Stop The War: “Not appropriate” to hear Syrians at meeting on Syria

http://www.syriauk.org/2015/09/not-appropriate-to-hear-syrians-at.html

In August 2015, Planet Syria activists responded to an advertised event on Syria featuring Diane Abbott, Seumas Milne, and Andrew Murray, and called for a Syrian speaker to be included.

Stop the War refuse to listen to Syrians during debate… on Syria

http://www.syriauk.org/2015/11/stop-war-refuse-to-listen-to-syrians.html

During a November 2015 event on Syria in the House of Commons chaired by Diane Abbott, StWC included no Syrians on the speaker’s panel and refused to allow Syrians to speak from the floor.

Why Stop the War don’t want to listen to Syrians

http://www.syriauk.org/2015/11/why-stop-war-dont-want-to-listen-to.html

Following the StWC event chaired by Diane Abbott where she tried to ignore Syrians, a Syrian activist debated her on the Daily Politics programme.

LCID and SyriaUK call on Diane Abbott to distance herself from pro-Assad atrocity denier

http://www.syriauk.org/2019/09/lcid-and-syriauk-call-on-diane-abbott.html

Last year we joined with @LabourCID to object to Diane Abbot sharing a platform with David Miller.