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Sport, politics and Covid collide at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Sport, politics and Covid collide at the Beijing Winter Olympics

On February 4th, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will start, at a time of particularly intense criticism of China over its human rights abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and others. As the Games will serve as a political propaganda event to “sportswash” the Uyghur genocide and other atrocity crimes, the World Uyghur Congress has continuously for (diplomatic) boycotts of the Beijing Olympics.

Read the full article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/30/sport-politics-and-covid-collide-at-the-beijing-winter-olympics