Top Olympic Sponsors Grilled on China Human Rights Abuses Ahead of Beijing Games lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday said it had to “remain neutral” on global political issues in response to a request from the U.S. Congressional commission that asked it to postpone and relocate the 2022 Beijing Winter Games if China does not end its human rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The reply came in response to a letter that the bipartisan U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent to IOC president Thomas Bach. The commission made the letter public on July 23.
“No Olympics should be held in a country whose government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity,” said the letter by the CECC, an independent agency of the U.S. government that monitors human rights and rule of law developments in China.
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Raymond, Baskin tops in Ballston Spa election
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People make their way in to the fire house on Washington Street to cast their ballots in the village election on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
A woman makes her way into the fire house on Washington Street to cast her ballot in the village election as another woman leaves the polling location on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
BALLSTON SPA – The village election on Tuesday that was meant to be nonpartisan, looks to have once again been decided on party lines.
Baskin and Raymond win in Ballston Spa village election | The Daily Gazette
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BALLSTON SPA An incumbent village trustee and a “smart growth” advocate who ran with him as the “A Better BSpa” party were elected to the Village Board Tuesday in a five-way contest for two seats on the board.
Unofficial results from the contested election gave incumbent Trustee Shawn Raymond 359 votes, just ahead of his running mate, Ben Baskin, who received 336 votes.
Not far behind was Mary Price-Bush with 329 votes, followed by Sean Mulvaney with 243 votes, and Robert Bush Jr., with 226 votes, according to the figures provided by Mayor Larry Woolbright.