By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu, CNN Originally published by CNN on 11 February, 2022 Beijing (CNN) – As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the extensive Olympic “bubble” — a zone sealing off visiting athletes, media and participants from (read more…)
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Originally published by nord on 8 February, 2022 Peking February 8 (ANI): China has used draconian surveillance laws to suppress dissent against the country’s communist leadership. Tens of thousands appeared to have been detained in China, under “a systematic and secret detention policy”, which allows authorities to keep anyone in jail (read more…)
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By Dan Wetzel Originally published by yahoo! news on 5 February, 2022 A day after the International Olympic Committee tried to claim these Games should be free of politics, the Chinese Communist Party staged an Opening Ceremony draped in dual-track political messaging for audiences both inside China and out that was (read more…)
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By Dan Wetzel Originally published by yahoo! news on 4 February, 2022 The International Olympic Committee held a news conference Thursday in Beijing for its president, Thomas Bach. He also could have doubled as Chinese Communist Party spokesman. Bach is a smart guy. A 68-year old German lawyer who speaks (read more…)
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By Lisa Kim Originally published by Forbes on 2 February, 2022 Team USA athletes are arriving in China to compete in the Winter Olympic Games amid a global pandemic—not the only unusual element of the Games as athletes have been advised to use burner phones instead of their personal devices over (read more…)
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By Rhoda Kwan and Vincent Ni Originally published by The Guardian on 1 February, 2022 Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong expected to be charged with involvement in a meeting with activists in late 2019As millions of Chinese families gather this week to celebrate the arrival of the year of the tiger, (read more…)
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By Jonathan Walker Originally published by Vision times on 1 February, 2022 On Feb. 1, Japan’s lower house of parliament adopted a resolution that expressed concern about the Chinese communist regime’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang. The resolution was adopted just days before the 2022 Winter (read more…)
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Originally published by ANI on 29 January, 2022 New York [US], January 29 (ANI): 243 global groups including nongovernmental organisations have called for action against China over human rights concerns as Beijing Winter Olympics is set to begin in the first week of February. “The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open (read more…)
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By Christian Shepherd Originally published by The Washington Post on 28 January, 2022 China said Friday it welcomes a visit by the U.N. rights commissioner to Xinjiang so long as it is an “exchange,” not an investigation — as human rights groups fear Beijing’s offer is a ruse to avoid (read more…)
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By Richard Finney Originally published by Radio Free Asia on 28 January, 2022 They are a source of pride, but their participation should not obscure China’s rights abuses, activists say. Two ethnic Tibetans and a Uyghur are competing this year on China’s national Olympics team in Beijing, prompting feelings of (read more…)
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Originally published by INDIA BLOOMS on 28 January, 2022 Beijing: The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open amid atrocity crimes and other grave human rights violations by the Chinese government, 243 nongovernmental organizations from around the world said today. The groups urged governments to join a diplomatic boycott of the Games, (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on 28 Jan, 2022 In the lead-up to the Beijing Winter Olympics there have been two major side issues unrelated to sport: Covid, and human rights protests. Chinese authorities have implemented an ambitious “closed loop” system to try to keep the Games free of a (read more…)
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