Regierungen weltweit werden von über 180 Menschenrechtsorganisationen zu einem „diplomatischen Boykott“ der Olympischen Winterspiele 2022 in Peking aufgefordert.
Zusammen mit über 180 Menschenrechtsorganisationen fordert die GSTF Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt in einem offenen Brief dazu auf, die Olympischen Winterspiele in Peking 2022 „diplomatisch zu boykottieren“. Durch das Fernbleiben der Regierungsvertreter von den Spielen würde ein Zeichen gesetzt, dass die massiven Menschenrechtsverletzungen der KP Chinas inakzeptabel und nicht vertretbar sind. Schon im letzten Oktober hatten Menschenrechtsorganisationen IOC-Vertreter dazu aufgerufen, die Vergabe der Spiele an Peking zurückzunehmen.
Dear World Leaders
We, a coalition of over 180 groups, jointly call on governments to commit to a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games to ensure they are not used to embolden the Chinese government’s appalling rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent.
At the end of July 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Beijing as the host city for the 2022 Winter Games. Since then—and despite claims by the IOC and Beijing Olympic Committee that the Games will serve as a catalyst for progress—President Xi Jinping has unleashed an unrelenting crackdown on basic freedom and human rights.
The situation in occupied Tibet has dramatically deteriorated and has been transformed into a surveillance state with over 1,000 political prisoners facing torture and even death; in East Turkistan (Ch: Xinjiang) between 1.8 and three million Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are arbitrarily detained in “re-education camps,” enduring inhuman treatment and political indoctrination; in Hong Kong, the city’s vibrant community of human rights activists and outspoken youths have been rounded up by the thousands for simply advocating for democracy; in Southern Mongolia, children are being deprived of their right to speak their mother tongue, as the Chinese government has intensified its crackdown on cultural differences. China’s reach extends to extreme intimidation and geopolitical bullying of Taiwan and aggression and expansion across borders in the South China Sea and India-Tibet border, which present a clear threat to regional and global security.
For two decades, our coalition, members of frontline communities, and numerous human rights groups have repeatedly sought to inform the IOC about these conditions, explain the dangers of awarding China the Olympic Games, and caution against accepting any human rights assurances from one of the world’s worst human rights violators.
The IOC refused to listen in 2008, defending its decision with claims that they would prove to be a catalyst for improved human rights. As human rights experts predicted, this decision proved to be hugely misplaced; not only did China’s human rights record not improve but violations increased substantially without rebuke.
Now, in 2021, we find ourselves back in the same position with the IOC who are refusing to act despite the clear evidence of genocide and widespread and worsening human rights failures.
It now falls on governments to take a stand and demonstrate that they have the political will to push back against China’s reprehensible human rights abuses.
We, therefore, call on governments to boycott the Beijing 2022 Games – anything less will be seen as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian rule and blatant disregard for civil and human rights.
Yours sincerely,
Mandie McKeown – Executive Director, International Tibet Network – on behalf
Dolkun Isa, World Uyghur Congress
Dorjee Tseten, Students for a Free Tibet
Rushan Abbas, Campaign for Uyghurs
Frances Hui, WeTheHongKongers
Omer Kanat, Uyghur Human Rights Project
Jenny Wang, Keep Taiwan Free
Teng Biao, China Against the Death Penalty
Mattias Bjornerstedt, Swedish Tibet Committee
周锋锁 Zhou Fengsuo, Humanitarian China
John Jones, Free Tibet
Zoe Bedford, Australia Tibet Council
Bhuchung Tsering, International Campaign for Tibet
Enghebatu Togochog, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Center
Tashi Shitsetsang, Tibetan Youth Association Europe
and the following organisations in alphabetical order:
Aide aux Refugies Tibetains Amigos de Tibet, Colombia Amigos del Tíbet, Chile Amigos del Tibet, El Salvador Anterrashtriya Bharat – Tibbet Sahyog Samiti Asociación Cultural Peruano Tibetana Asociación Cultural Tibetano Costarricense Association Cognizance Tibet, North Carolina Association Drôme Ardèche-Tibet Associazione Italia-Tibet Atlanta Tibetan Association Australia China Watch Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association Bath District Tibet Support Group Bay Area Friends of Tibet Bharrat Tibbat Sahyog Manch, India Boston Tibet Network Boston Uyghur Association Briancon05 Urgence Tibet Canada Tibet Committee Casa del Tibet – Spain Casa Tibet México Centro De Cultura Tibetana, Brazil China Alarm China Democracy Party China Labour Solidarity Circle of Friends Philippines Citizen Power Initiatives for China Comite de Apoyo al Tibet Committee of 100 for Tibet Comunità Tibetana in Italia Core Group for Tibetan Cause, India Czechs Support Tibet Daily HongKong Defend Democracy Dream for Children, Japan EcoTibet Ireland Étudiants Pour Un Tibet Libre Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H. H. the Dalai Lama France-Tibet Freedom Ummah Free Indo-Pacific Alliance Free Tibet Fukuoka FREE TIBET ITALIA Free Uyghur Now Friends of Tibet in Costa Rica Friends of Tibet in Finland Friends of Tibet New Zealand Friends4Tibet Germany Stands with Hong Kong Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities Grupo de Apoio ao Tibete, Portugal Hong Kong Committee in Norway Hong Kong Social Action Movements in Boston Hong Kongers in San Francisco Bay Area Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan India Tibet Friendship Society Indiana Tibetan association International Society for Human Rights- Sweden International Society of Human Rights, Munich International Tibet Independence Movement Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People Japan Association of Monks for Tibet (Super Sangha) Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom Justice For All Le Club Français, Paraguay Les Amis du Tibet – Belgium Les Amis du Tibet Luxembourg Lions Des Neiges Mont Blanc Lungta Association Belgium Maison des Himalayas Maison du Tibet – Tibet Info McGill Stands with Hong Kong National Campaign for Tibetan Support, India National Committee of Democracy Party of China National Democratic Party of Tibet Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association, Portland Objectif Tibet Ottawa Tibetan Community Association Passeport Tibetain Phagma Drolma-Arya Tara RangZen:Movimento Tibete Livre, Brazil Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts Roof of the World Foundation, Indonesia | Santa Barbara Friends of Tibet Save Tibet Foundation Save Tibet, Austria Sierra Friends of Tibet Society for Threatened Peoples International Southern Mongolia Congress Stand With Hong Kong Vienna Students for a Free Tibet – Canada Students for a Free Tibet – UK Students for a Free Tibet Denmark Students for a Free Tibet India Students for a Free Tibet Japan Swiss Tibetan Friendship Association Taiwan Friends of Tibet Tashi Delek Bordeaux Tenzin Tsokyi The Norwegian Tibet Committee The Norwegian Uyghur Committee The Youth Liberation Front of Tibet, Mongolia and Turkestan Tibet Action Group of Western Australia Tibet Action Institute Tibet cesky (Tibet in Czech) Tibet Committee of Fairbanks Tibet Group, Panama Tibet Initiative Deutschland Tibet Justice Center Tibet Lives, India Tibet Mx Tíbet Patria Libre, Uruguay Tibet Rescue Initiative in Africa Tibet Society of South Africa Tibet Support Committee Denmark Tibet Support Group Adelaide Tibet Support Group Ireland Tibet Support Group Kenya Tibet Support Group Kiku, Japan Tibet Support Group Netherlands Tibet Support Group Slovenia Tibetan Alliance of Chicago Tibetan Association of Boston Tibetan Association of Germany Tibetan Association of Ithaca Tibetan Association of North America Tibetan Association of Northern California Tibetan Association of Philadelphia Tibetan Association of Philadelphia Tibetan Association of Philadelphia Tibetan Association of Santa Fe Tibetan Association of Vermont Tibetan Community Austria Tibetan Community in Britain Tibetan Community in Denmark Tibetan Community in Ireland Tibetan Community of Italy Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey Tibetan Community of South Australia Tibetan Community of Victoria Tibetan Community Sweden Tibetan Community, Queensland Tibetan Cultural Association – Quebec Tibetan Cultural Society of BC Tibetan Programme of The Other Space Foundation Tibetan Women’s Association (Central) Tibetan-American Community of Connecticut Tibetans of Mixed Heritage Tibetisches Zentrum Hamburg TIBETmichigan Toronto Association for Democracy in China Torontonian HongKongers Action Group U.S. Tibet Committee United Nations for a Free Tibet US Hongkongers Club Uyghur American Association Uyghur Association of Victoria, Australia Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement Vietnamese Community in Australia/ SA Chapter Voces Tibet Wisconsin Tibetan Association World League for Freedom and Democracy 台灣永社 Taiwan Forever Association, TFA 芝援香港 Global Solidarity with Hong Kong – Chicago |