International Council of Imam, the non-governmental body uniting Muslims, banned the followers of Islam to go to the Winter Olympic Games of 2022 in Beijing. The prohibition is associated with the oppression of Muslim-Uigurov living in China, the Council states on the site.
It is argued that the participation and visit of the Olympiad “will directly serve as the interests of the tyrannical and despotic regime responsible for the genocide and ethnic cleaning of the Uigur.”
The boycott of games was also called in the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom: they refused to send their diplomats to China. This was conceived in Sweden.
in the Chinese region, Xinjiang lives over a million Uigurov – Muslims of Turkic origin. The European and American media have long argued that representatives of this nationality of the country’s power forcibly contain in state camps and forcing labor. In addition, it is argued that the Muslims living there were forbidden to call children traditional names for them, forced to eat pork and drink alcohol. The network also appeared information on the subsidence of representatives of the title nation in the Uigur family and the promotion of Uygur women decided on sterilization.
Olympiad in Beijing will be held from 4 to 20 February 2022.