Free Tibet:Take Action: Say No to Beijing 2022

 

In February 2022, Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympic Games. The Games will be a prestigious event: a festival of elite sport and a chance for the Chinese Communist Party to impress the world with a dazzling opening ceremony and advanced infrastructure.

Behind the sport and the spectacle, are real human rights abuses and atrocities carried out in Tibet but directed by the Chinese government in Beijing.

We must oppose these abuses with action! Add your name to our petition telling the British Olympic Association that we must stay away from Beijing 2022.

 

Mass arrests, torture, attacks on Tibet’s culture, language and religion, zero freedom of expression and the displacement of Tibetan nomads. The genocide of the Uyghur people and the shredding of civil liberties in Hong Kong.

How do these atrocities meet the Olympic values and principles of respect, friendship, diversity, and autonomy?

By telling our athletes to compete at Beijing 2022, the British Olympic Association is closing its eyes and ears to the outrage of the British public and those who stand for human rights around the world.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refused to move the games or even raise the alarm about torture, armed crackdowns and genocide.

It has ignored Tibetan voices and put athletes in a difficult position by insisting that the Games go ahead in Beijing. It has learned nothing from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which were preceded by police violence and soldiers deployed to Tibet.

Few spoke out in 2008, and today the situation in Tibet is worse than ever, with Tibet being ranked the least-free country in the world in 2021. The Chinese government must not be allowed to use another festival of sport to legitimise its brutal policies.

The IOC may refuse to move the games but we do not have to sit in silence. Tell the British Olympic Association that we must stay away from Beijing 2022.

Sign the Petition