British ministers refused to presence at the Olympics in Beijing in 2022 in protest against violation of human rights in China. This was stated by Prime Minister British Boris Johnson, reports Sky News.
Nevertheless, according to politics, Britain does not support the idea of sports boycott. “In fact, we are talking about diplomatic boycake,” the prime minister stressed.
The first with the call to boycott the Olympics in the People’s Republic of China performed in the United States. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the American Congress Nancy Pelosi called on the international community to boycott games due to the Genocide of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area (Suar). On December 6, it became known that the presidential administration of US President Joe Bayiden will announce a diplomatic boycott of events. On December 8, Australia joined the boycott. Olympiad in Beijing will be held from 4 to 20 February 2022.
In early March, the NEWLINES INSTITUTE analytical center stated that the Chinese authorities violated each of the prohibitions of the UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and Punishment for Him. What is happening with Muslims-Uigurs and other Muslim minorities in the Sinzian-Uygur region of China can be considered extermination.
On October 6, the former police detective KNR, who fled to Europe, told how the Chinese authorities are tortured by the Muslims prisoners, trying to extract confessions. According to policemen, detainees beaten, tortured with electricity and subjected to group rapes so that they take the blame for terrorism.