'During the month of February we will be continuing our campaign against Beijing 2022, shining a spotlight on China's egregious human rights abuses,' Pema Doma, Campaigns Director for Students for a Free Tibet, told The Daily Beast
The organizers, many of them women in their early twenties and thirties, have launched a series of events to run on each day until the end of the Games on Feb. 20. “During the month of February we will be continuing our campaign against, shining a spotlight on China's egregious human rights abuses,” Pema Doma, Campaigns Director for Students for a Free Tibet, told The Daily Beast. “Together we’ll continue to challenge Chinese propaganda at Beijing 2022.
The day before the ceremony, activists stepped up their pressure with a series of demonstrations in 65 cities around the world to protest what they called “the IOC’s failure to hold China accountable for their serious and worsening human rights abuses.” Since 2008, an estimated 160 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest against China’s increasingly abusive policies in Tibet, which Freedom House has ranked the least free place on earth, tied with Syria. In Xinjiang, as many as 1 million Uighurs, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people, have been thrown into brutal prison camps, which the Chinese refer to as “re-education schools.
Activists representing disparate peoples in China began to strategize immediately after China was awarded the Winter Games. In October 2020, a delegation representing 160 human rights groups had a virtual meeting with the IOC hoping to convince the body to either cancel or relocate the Winter Olympics. The meeting didn’t go well, some of those who attended the meeting told The Daily Beast.
Allianz, the insurance and financial services giant, one of 13 international corporate sponsors, is believed to be the only sponsor that agreed to meet with campaigners. Company officials politely listened to speakers and promised to discuss the issue in-house. But there was no further response, even after activists staged a sit-in and chained themselves to the door of the Allianz building in Berlin last month.
Norge Siste Nytt, Norge Overskrifter
Similar News:Du kan også lese nyheter som ligner på denne som vi har samlet inn fra andre nyhetskilder.
Meghan McCain boycotting 2022 Beijing Olympics: ‘Genocide Games’Meghan McCain explained why she wouldn’t be tuning into the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Feb. 4.
Les mer »
Olympic Athlete Claims Quarantine Food At Games Is Inedible, 'I Cry Every Day'An Olympic athlete at the 2022 Games in Beijing says the food she's been given during her quarantine period has been so bad, she's in physical pain and cries every day.
Les mer »
Photos: Highlights of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games Day 2Check out the photo highlights from Day 2 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Les mer »
Team USA's Nathan Chen sets figure skating short program world record at Beijing GamesIt was for his short program. Only the upcoming free skate stands in the way of Olympic gold for him.
Les mer »
Leslie Jones Explains Why 2022 Beijing Games May Be The 'Last Olympics' She Live Tweets - E! OnlineAfter enthusiastically live-tweeting the Olympics for years, Leslie Jones says the Beijing Games may be her last, because she’s “tired of fighting.”
Les mer »