Human Rights Groups Urge IOC to Block China From Hosting Olympics

Several human rights groups have written a joint letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asking them to block China from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics due to the countryࢀ™s gross human rights violations. Beijing is looking forward to hosting the event as a way to showcase to the world how technologically advanced and socially ordered the country is. The Olympics The letter was written by 160 advocacy groups from North America, Australia, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The letter warned that the Chinese government has been emboldened by the prestige it gained from the 2008 Olympics, after which it has…