Human Rights Organizations Are Calling for a Boycott of the 2022 Communist China Olympic Games
A number of human rights activists are calling for a boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China.
“Groups alleging human-rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations,” the Associated Press reported.
“This cannot be games as usual or business as usual; not for the IOC and not for the international community,” Lhadon Tethong of the Tibet Action Institute said in an interview with the AP.
China has a history of discrimination against Tibet.
“China’s one-party authoritarian state under the Chinese Communist Party systemically curbs fundamental rights,” Human Rights Watch explains.
“Rights groups have met several times in the last year with the IOC, asking that the games be removed from China. A key member in those talks was Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress,” the AP reported.
Meanwhile, major companies who maligned Georgia for passing an election integrity bill also opposed ending slave Uighur labor in China.
“Both Amazon and Target have been linked to suppliers whose factories hire workers under illegal and potentially dangerous circumstances,” The Daily Caller said.
“U.S. corporations that recently criticized Georgia’s election reform bill have been tied to factories in China with poor conditions for workers and forced Uyghur labor,” the Daily Caller pointed out in an April 30 article.
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