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Canada Plans To Relocate Winter Olympics From China Over abuses Of Uighur Minority
Canada lawmakers, joined forces with a coalition of 180 rights groups that have boycotted next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, scheduled for Feb. 4, 2022.
Amid the international calls to boycott Beijing s Winter Olympics in 2022 over human-rights abuses in China, 13 Canadian MPs from all five major federal parties wrote to International Olympic Committee on February 6 to relocate the games to another country. Citing China s Uyghur minority humanitarian abuses, Canadian lawmakers, joined forces with a coalition of 180 rights groups that have boycotted next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, scheduled for Feb. 4, 2022, “to ensure they are not used to embolden the Chinese government’s appalling rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent,” per an open letter issued for the global leadership. The Canadian MPs, meanwhile, in a separate letter, reiterated the concern with the IOC