Human Rights Groups Demand IOC Strip Beijing of 2022 Winter Olympics


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The call comes as China faces increased global scrutiny and backlash over its clampdown in Hong Kong, the mass internment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, and clashes on the Tibet border with India. The demand was contained in a letter signed by over 160 groups and addressed to the IOC president. The missive warned the 2022 Games “could contribute to more repression” in China even as the ruling Communist dictatorship sought to make them a pageant of national power and prestige. It comes two months after the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an advocacy group for the ethnic minority native to...