China rejects calls for Beijing to be stripped of 2022 Winter Olympics


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By Liam Morgan Thursday, 24 September 2020 China's Foreign Ministry has dismissed calls for Beijing to be stripped of the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games over the country's human rights record. Politicians and human rights groups are among those to have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move the event from the Chinese capital amid its alleged mistreatment of its own citizens. China's clampdown in Hong Kong and the alleged mass internment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang has been the subject of growing criticism from across the world, sparking claims the country should not...