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Uyghur group wants China not to host the Games

A Munich-based Uyghur minority advocacy group on Thursday urged the IOC to reconsider holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over what it calls “genocide” against the Muslim minority. China. In an open letter to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), through its President Dolkun Isa, launches: “We have so far been very disappointed that the IOC has not addressed the human rights situation in China since granting Beijing the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. It is deeply worrying that the IOC, as an organization international body with strict ethical rules, has failed to recognize China’s human rights record, given the international crimes currently being committed in the Uyghur region, as well as in China in general. ”

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