Posts tagged with: Olympics
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 Bid: Joint Open Letter to International Olympic Committee
Read in Spanish As Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and Han Chinese we join together to urge you, International Olympic Committee members, not to award another Olympic Games to China. All of the people we represent have suffered as a result...
“No more Bloody Games” – Young Tibetan activists stage IOC protest as Beijing makes pitch for 2022 Olympics
10 June 2015: Lausanne: Activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) protested at the Lausanne Palace Hotel, where representatives of the Chinese Government and Beijing Olympic Committee were presenting their case for Beijing to be awarded the 2022...
Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice”
MEDIA RELEASE 1 June 2015 [For Immediate Use] Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice” IOC Evaluation Commission accepts China’s assurances regarding human rights but gives no details of “written assurances”...
Beijing’s Bid to host 2022 Winter Olympic Games | Media Statement
Media Release from International Tibet Network and Free Tibet 16 February 2015: Immediate Release Alistair Currie of Free Tibet, London, said: “In 2008, worldwide attention on repression in Tibet and the international campaign by Tibet activists served notice to the International Olympic...