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“#Human rights groups ask IOC to move 2022 Olympics from China<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n TOKYO \u2014 China\u2019s repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing\u2019s 2008 Olympics.<\/p>\n

It could happ<\/a>en again.<\/p>\n

Beijing is to host the 2022 Winter Olympics with rumblings of a boycott and calls to move the game<\/a>s because of alleged human rights violations.<\/p>\n

A coalition of human rights groups delivered that demand to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach ahead of the body\u2019s executive board meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday. In a letter, the group asked the IOC to \u201creverse its mistake in awarding Beijing the honor of hosting the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter said that the 2008 Olympics had failed to improve China\u2019s human rights record, and that since then, it has built \u201can Orwellian surveillance network\u201d in Tibet and incarcerated more than a million Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group, in the Xinjiang region. It listed a litany of other alleged abuses from Hong Kong to the Inner Mongolia region, as well as the intimidation of Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused the groups of trying to politicize sports, which he said is against the spirit of the Olympic Charter.<\/p>\n

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Visitors to Chongli, one of the venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, past by billboards promoting the event in Chongli in northern China\u2019s Hebei Province.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China has repeatedly denied human rights abuses. It at first said the camps for Uighurs didn\u2019t exist and then said they were job training centers to combat terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough vocational education and training, Xinjiang has taken preventive counter-terrorism and de-radicalization measures, effectively contained the once frequent terrorist activities, and protected the right to life, health and development of all ethnic groups,\u201d another spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said last week. \u201cOver the past four years there hasn\u2019t been a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IOC argued the 2008 Olympics would transform China and improve its human rights record. Instead, they are often compared to Hitler\u2019s 1936 Berlin Olympics; an authoritarian state using the games as a stage.<\/p>\n

A Washington Post editorial this month suggested China should lose the Olympics. \u201cThe world must ask whether China, slowly strangling an entire people, has the moral standing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics,\u201d it said. \u201cWe think not.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are precarious times for the Swiss-based IOC. Its finances \u2014 and those of 200 national Olympic committees and dozens of Olympic-related sports federations \u2014 have been shaken by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Bach warned two months ago against boycotts but said he was not referring specifically to Beijing. The Swiss-based body generates 73% of its revenue from selling television rights and 18% from sponsors and has seen its income stalled by the Tokyo delay.<\/p>\n

After European cities such as Oslo and Stockholm dropped out, the IOC was left with only two bidders for 2022: Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Beijing won by four votes, taking the Winter Olympics to a country with no tradition \u2014 but a giant, untapped market.<\/p>\n

Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., the IOC member who oversees the Beijing Games, declined to answer questions from The Associated Press about reported human rights violations in Xinjiang and referred to comments from the IOC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwarding the Olympic Games to a national Olympic committee does not mean that the IOC agrees with the political structure, social<\/a> circumstances or human rights standards in the country,\u201d the IOC said in an email to the AP.<\/p>\n

The IOC said it has \u201creceived assurances that the principles of the Olympic Charter will be respected in the context of the games.\u201d It added it must remain \u201cneutral on all global political issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IOC included human rights requirements in the host city contract for the 2024 Paris Olympics, but it did not include those guidelines \u2014 the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights \u2014 for Beijing. Paris is the first Olympics to contain the standards, long pushed for by human rights groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cNGOs, celebrities and other activist groups will put tremendous pressure on China in the run-up to the games calling for boycotts, etc.,\u201d Victor Cha, a former White House adviser on Asia, said in an email to the AP. \u201cI think the IOC would be very reluctant to take 2022 away from Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n

China is also the host for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.<\/p>\n

Athletes have shown their power in supporting Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and elsewhere. German soccer player Mesut Ozil, a Muslim with Turkish roots, has spoken out against China and coined the phrase: \u201cMuslim Lives Matter.\u201d He has been critical that Muslim-majority countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have remained silent.<\/p>\n

Murray Hiebert, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that such countries don\u2019t want to jeopardize their economic ties with China, including the infrastructure investment they get.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndonesia was very critical of Myanmar when it expelled some 750,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in late 2017 and early 2018, but officials have said little about the Uighur situation in China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The IOC is under pressure to revise a rule that prohibits political protests on podiums at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Casey Wasserman, who heads the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, said he has written to Bach and asked him to reform the rule. \u201cI don\u2019t believe anti-racist speech is political speech,\u201d he said this month.<\/p>\n

Mary Harvey, the CEO of the Swiss-based Centre for Sport and Human Rights, said athletes protesting against racism and inequality in the United States should have the same rights in Beijing, or in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

But Lee Jones, who researches Asian politics at Queen Mary University of London, said athletes were unlikely to speak up. The Winter Olympics are much smaller than the Summer Games, with few Muslim athletes taking part.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost sportsmen and women seem to want to separate sport and politics, unless they are directly implicated, like in athletic activism in the U.S.,\u201d he wrote in an email.<\/p>\n

Jones said, though, that the growing criticism of China\u2019s human rights record by foreign governments \u2014 notably the U.S. and some European countries \u2014 makes the situation potentially more serious for China than 2008, when the campaign was largely driven by Tibet activist groups.<\/p>\n

The campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden has backed the use of the term \u201cgenocide\u201d for China\u2019s actions in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

Jones said boycotts are unlikely to change China\u2019s behavior, but China might move if it sees its reputation damaged, particularly in Muslim-dominated countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina has reacted furiously to any suggestion that it is even mistreating the Uighur population, let alone committing genocide,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, it likely to react very negatively indeed if other governments start to lead a boycott campaign.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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