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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211121 05:10:00

of political consequences. sophie richardson is the china director at human rights watch. i asked her what she made of the videos. we are extremely sceptical about the veracity of it and certainly would not think for a moment that it proves anything about peng shuai s safety or her well being. it is worth pointing out that the chinese government really has form when it comes to notjust coercing confessions from people but finding ways to broadcast them. what you re correspondent described is entirely consistent with what we have seen used, for example, from swedish publisher, gui minhai, a few years ago, who was forced to go on camera and say that he was fine and happy to stay in china and was sorry for the mistakes that he d made. this happens fairly regularly. that it is happening at such a high profile educates the world about what the rule of law does not involve inside china. obviously beijing is due

Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211121 03:12:00

and certainly would not think for a moment that it proves anything about peng shuai s safety or her well being. it is worth pointing out that the chinese government really has form when it comes to notjust coercing confessions from people but finding ways to broadcast them. what you re correspondent described is entirely consistent with what we have seen used, for example, from swedish publisher, gui minhai, a few years ago, who was forced to go on camera and said that who was forced to go on camera and say that he was fine and happy to stay in china and was sorry for the mistakes that he d made. this happens fairly regularly. that it is happening at such a high profile educates the world about what the rule of law does not involve inside china. obviously beijing is due to host the winter olympics in a matter of months from now. what do you think the rest of the world needs to do, what does the international olympic committee need to do to send a clear message

Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211121 04:11:00

that he d made. this happens fairly regularly. that it is happening at such a high profile educates the world about what the rule of law does not involve inside china. obviously beijing is due to host the winter olympics in a matter of months from now. what do you think the rest of the world needs to do, what does the international olympic committee need to do to send a clear message that this kind of treatment, if it is as people suspect, is simply not acceptable? she s also an olympian and when a government does this, just before it hosts an olympics, to an olympian it is really not a good look. we have argued for a long time that the chinese government should not be awarded the games and, after 2008, made that argument even more strongly because the government failed to fulfil any of the human rights related promises it had made to get the games. we can see that the situation inside the country has deteriorated significantly.

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