Canadian Olympic Committee discourage Beijing 2022 boycott in one-year-to-go message


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By Michael Houston The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have released a joint statement saying that a "boycott is not the answer" for Beijing 2022, as part of one-year-to-go celebrations. Politicians from Britain, Australia and the United States have called for a boycott due to China's alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims and in Hong Kong, accusations the host nation has repeatedly denied. The United Nations estimates that at least one million Uyghurs and other indigenous Muslims have been detained in "counterextremism centres" in Xinjiang. Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor...