ATHENS, Oct 18 — Next year’s Beijing Games has triggered protests over China’s human rights record but the International Olympic Committee’s point man for the event, Juan Antonio Samaranch, said the multi-sport extravaganza is about bringing young people together.
Two of the activists, who unfurled a Tibetan flag and a banner reading “Free Hong Kong - Revolution” from Athens’ Acropolis, were arrested on Sunday morning. “We cannot comment on those protests. There were some protests today in Athens. We are here in ancient Olympia for a very important thing, getting everybody together.
Rights groups and some US lawmakers have called on the IOC to relocate the event unless China ends what the United States deems ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups.
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