Activists to hold global protests on Olympic Day against staging of Beijing 2022


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By Geoff Berkeley Friday, 18 June 2021 Protests are set to be held in around 50 cities across the world calling for a mass boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics "over one of the worst human rights crises of our time". The first "No Beijing 2022 Global Day of Action" is scheduled to take place on Olympic Day on June 23 by more than 150 rights groups. Demonstrations are being planned by Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Chinese, Taiwanese and Southern Mongolian representatives and allies. Canberra in Australia is set to stage the first protest before further demonstrations are...