Human Rights In China Made Worse By Olympics: Report

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, according to a new Amnesty International report.

Published to mark the 10-day countdown to the Games, the report evaluates the performance of the Chinese authorities in four areas related to the core Olympic values of 'universal fundamental ethical principles' and 'human dignity': these include persecution of human rights activists, detention without trial, censorship and the death penalty.

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[LiberalRebel2]

well..I just found out that the Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city's bars during the Olympic Games. With a racist damned government like this running the so called "games of brotherhood" I will boycott the whole sorry mess and wait for the next one to run. Just no value of seeing anything coming out from a closed up and subdues country under communist regime like this one.

[RTIII]

It seems Chinese leadership doesn't understand the Olympic Spirit.
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