Rally Notice: Protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4

The Australian and New Zealand Alliance for Victims of the Chinese Communist Regime (ANZAVCCR) and related groups will hold a rally in Martin Place, Sydney, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm on February 4, 2022, to protest the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

The CCP regime has massacred 80 million innocent civilians, and its heinous crimes against humanity continue. Holding the Olympic Games is a political action by the CCP regime trying to whitewash and cover up its heinous crimes. It is a shameless distortion and desecration of the Olympic Games, which symbolize peace, harmony and unity.

We rallied to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, to show the world our belief in human rights and justice, to express that human rights are higher than sports, commercial interests, and political deals, and also condemn all acts of holding the candle to the devil.

AAP: Seven urged to drop Beijing Olympics

Seven urged to drop Beijing Olympics

Farid Farid

Protesters are urging the Seven Network to drop its coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

With just a week until the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, dissidents are urging the Seven Network to drop its coverage of the games because of China's human rights record.

Around 25 people rallied outside the Seven's headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place on Friday to voice concerns about the broadcasting of the Olympics.

They said it would give China a pass on its flagrant abuses of human rights.

"Channel Seven should boycott the Beijing Olympics because we have no freedom in Tibet," said Migmar Tsering of the Tibetan Community Association in Sydney.

Chinese state control had grown under the leadership under President Xi Jinping, he claimed.

"There is torture and destruction of Buddhist monasteries and schools," he said.

"Young children are taken to China and re-educated in Chinese communist policies and language. This is cultural genocide."

The organisers are from disenfranchised ethnic and religious minorities in China, including Uighurs as well as citizens from Hong Kong and Taiwan, who warned the network "would become complicit" in the regime's roundly condemned human rights violations.

"We're all in the same boat facing different levels of oppression," Ramila Chanisheff of the Australian Uyghur Women's Association said.

"There's credible evidence of people dying and for a country to host a glamorous event where genocide is happening is shocking."

China has interned an estimated one million Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in camps over the past four years, according to rights groups, researchers and survivors.

Australia joined a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics in December, along with other countries including the US and UK, citing human rights concerns.

Canberra's relationship with Beijing has also deteriorated in recent years with China slapping tariffs on key Australian exports such as wine and barley, as well as restricting coal imports.

The Beijing Winter Olympic games will run from February 2 to 20. The opening ceremony will take place on February 4.

(Australian Associated Press, 28 January 2022)