Hate Crimes South and East Asian Communities
2020-07-22
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A petition created by Viv Yau has nearly 3,000 signatures calling for the cessation of using stock imagery of south-east and east Asian people in relation to covid-19.
The disproportionate use of images of Chinese, south-east and east Asian people during the pandemic is causing a significant rise in racist attacks. Will the Minister commit to working with Government and public bodies on the use of these images and meet me to discuss the increase in hate crime during the pandemic?
The Government are willing to work with interested parties to prevent hate crime. The perpetrators of such crimes targeting south and east Asian communities during the pandemic are being punished as evidenced by cases prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service.
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