China's Foreign Ministry has dismissed claims by British, Australian and European MPs that it should be stripped of the 2022 Winter Olympics because of its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang | ErykBagshaw
China's Foreign Ministry has dismissed claims by British, Australian and European MPs that it should be stripped of the 2022 Winter Olympics because of its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
Earlier this week British MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith, co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and former leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, said that the IOC should rethink Beijing hosting the 2022 Games.More than 160 human rights groups also have asked for the International Olympic Committee to strip the Games from China over its treatment of the Uighur muslim minority in Xinjiang, its actions in Hong Kong and the establishment of labour camps in Tibet.
The committee said it considered the views of independent non-government organisations on human rights and received assurances from the Chinese Communist Party that the principles of the Olympic charter would be respected.
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