U.S. House Speaker Pelosi to testify at hearing on China Thursday

[February 03, 2022]    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will testify Thursday before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- a day before the opening of the Beijing Olympics.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leaves a Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

The panel is holding a hearing titled "the Beijing Olympics and the Faces of Repression" in an effort "to give a platform to voices working on behalf of the abused and repressed in China, including civil society, human rights defenders, the people of Hong Kong, Uyghurs, and Tibetans." It will also include Yaxue Cao, the founder and editor of China Change and others.

(Reporting by David Shepardson)

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