For Tibet supporters who do not follow winter sports, it may come as a shock that Beijing will be hosting the Winter Olympics next year, and not just because of the lack of snow...
- Has the International Olympic Committee forgotten that the 2008 Beijing Olympics took place in the shadow of protests and brutal crackdowns in Tibet?
- Does the IOC realise that since 2008, the human rights situation under the Chinese Communist Party has plummeted to new depths?
- Has the IOC considered that Beijing is home to a regime that is currently carrying out cultural destruction and torture in Tibet? Or massive crackdowns in Hong Kong? Or genocide against Uyghurs?
But we also want to get our message through to the IOC. The IOC needs to see the faces of the brave people who struggle to protect their livelihoods, culture or even their very existence.
Take Twitter by Storm!
Every Thursday for the next 52 weeks, we will share an image of a political prisoner or key human rights concern on our social media. We invite supporters to share them, on their accounts and ALSO in the comments on the IOC’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
Further information: www.freetibet.org
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